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Urocerus gigas

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Siricidae

Taxonomy
Ichneumon gigas was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant.

It was recombined as Sirex gigas by Linnaeus (1761), Linnaeus (1767), Fabricius (1775), Müller (1776); it was recombined as Urocerus gigas by Böcher (1995).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1758Ichneumon gigas Linnaeus p. 560
1761Sirex gigas Linnaeus p. 396
1763Ichneumon gigas Scopoli p. 281 fig. 739
1767Sirex gigas Linnaeus p. 928
1775Sirex gigas Fabricius p. 325
1776Sirex gigas Müller p. 150
1995Urocerus gigas Böcher p. 49

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaGravenhorst 1843
—Deuteropoda
—Mandibulata
—PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
—AltocrustaceaRegier et al. 2010
superclassAllotriocarida
—Athalassocarida
—LabiocaridaSchwentner et al. 2017
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
—Cercofilata
RankNameAuthor
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Hymenopterida
orderHymenoptera
—Unicalcarida
superfamilySiricoidea
familySiricidae()
subfamilySiricinae
genusUrocerus
speciesgigas()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Urocerus gigas Linnaeus 1758
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinc
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilep
Created: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Modified: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Source: c = class, p = phylum
References: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004
Collections
No collection or age range data are available