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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) and 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
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
RankNameAuthor
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
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