Family Siricidae Billberg 1820 (horntail)

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Siricidae

Alternative spelling: Siricides

Full reference: G. J. Billberg. 1820. Enumeratio Insectorum in Museo Gust. Joh. Billberg 1-138

Parent taxon: Siricoidea according to S. B. Archibald and A. P. Rasnitsyn 2022

See also Archibald and Rasnitsyn 2015, Archibald et al. 2018, Carpenter 1992, Jouault and Nel 2020, Maa 1949, Sharkey 2007 and Taeger et al. 2010

Sister taxa: Protosiricidae, Pseudosiricidae, Sinanxyela, Sinosiricidae

Subtaxa: Auliscinae Cratosiricinae Cretosirex Emanrisca Eoteredon Gigasiricinae Megapteritinae Siricinae Tremecinae

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Type: Sirex

Distribution:

• Pliocene of Germany (1 collection)

• Miocene of Croatia (1), France (1)

• Oligocene of France (1), Germany (1)

• Eocene of Argentina (1), Canada (1: British Columbia), Germany (1), the Russian Federation (3), the United Kingdom (1), United States (2: Washington, Wyoming)

• Paleocene of France (3)

• Cretaceous of Brazil (1), China (1), the Russian Federation (1)

• Jurassic of Kazakhstan (3), Kyrgyzstan (1)

Total: 24 collections including 28 occurrences

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