Allantinae

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Hymenopterida
Ordo: Hymenoptera
Subordo: Symphyta
Superfamilia: Tenthredinoidea

Familia: Tenthredinidae
Subfamilia: Allantinae
Tribus (5): Adamasini - Allantini - Athaliini - Empriini - Eriocampini

Overview of genera

Allantus – Athalia – Emphytopsis – Empria – Hemibeleses – Mallachiella – Probleta – Triallan –
References

Benson, R.B., 1962: A revision of the Athaliini (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology series 11 (7): 333–382.
Wei, M.-C., 1997: New Genera and New Species of Sawflies From Southwestern China (Hymenoptera:Tenthredinidae). Zoological Research 18 (2): 129–138. Abstract and full article: [1].

Allantinae is a subfamily of sawflies in the family Tenthredinidae,[2] and the largest subfamily of that family, with about 110 genera. The subfamily is considered to consist of five to six tribes, and are medium to large sawflies.[3]

Economic importance

Host plants include strawberries, raspberries, roses, violets, dogwood, and loosestrife. Larvae often pupate in fruit or wood.[3]

Monostegia abdominalis has larvae that feed on Primulaceae, and was introduced into Canada in about 1965 and is a major pest of Yellow Loosestrife (Lysimachia terrestris).[4][5]
Taxonomy

Tribes (type genera) select genera;[1][3]

Adamasini (Adamas Malaise, 1945)
Allantini Rohwer, 1911 (Allantus Panzer 1801) Emphytopsis Wie & Nie, 1998
Athaliini
Caliroini Benson, 1938 (Caliroa Costa, 1859)
Empriini Rohwer, 1911 (Empria Lepeletier & Serville 1828) Monostegia Costa, 1859
Eriocampini Rohwer, 1911 (Eriocampa Hartig 1837)

References

Liston et al 2014.
Wei, M.; Xu, Y.; Niu, G. (2011). "Revision of Emphytopsis Wei & Nie (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae) with descriptions of seven new species from China and Japan". Zootaxa. 2803: 1–20. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2803.1.1.
Smith 1979, Allantinae pp. 108–124
The Home Bug Garden. Sawfly Sunday: The Creepy Loosestrife Sawfly 20 June 2010

Price 1970.

Bibliography

Liston, Andrew; Knight, Guy; Sheppard, David; Broad, Gavin; Livermore, Laurence (29 August 2014). "Checklist of British and Irish Hymenoptera - Sawflies, 'Symphyta'". Biodiversity Data Journal. 2 (2): e1168. doi:10.3897/BDJ.2.e1168. PMC 4152835. PMID 25197241.
Price, Peter W. (April 1970). "A loosestrife sawfly, Monostegia abdominalis (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae)". The Canadian Entomologist. 102 (4): 491–495. doi:10.4039/Ent102491-4.
Smith, David R (June 1979). Nearctic sawflies IV. Allantinae: Adults and larvae (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae) (Technical Bulletin 1595). Washington: US Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 30 August 2016.

Further reading

Asaro, Christopher (2008). "Sawflies (Hymenoptera: Symphyta)". In Capinera, John L. (ed.). Encyclopedia of Entomology (2nd ed.). Dordrecht: Springer. pp. 3250–3252. ISBN 978-1-4020-6242-1.
Blank, S.M.; Groll, E.K.; Liston, A.D.; Prous, M.; Taeger, A. (2012). "ECatSym - Electronic World Catalog of Symphyta (Insecta, Hymenoptera). Program version 4.0 beta, data version 39". Müncheberg: Digital Entomological Information.
Blank, S.M.; Taeger, A. (1998). "Comments on the taxonomy of Symphyta (Hymenoptera)". In Taeger, A.; Blank, S.M. (eds.). Pflanzenwespen Deutschlands (Hymenoptera, Symphyta) Kommentierte Bestandsaufname. Keltern: Goecke & Evers. pp. 141–174.
Boevé, Jean-Luc (2008). "Sawflies (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae)". In Capinera, John L. (ed.). Encyclopedia of Entomology (2nd ed.). Dordrecht: Springer. pp. 3252–3257. ISBN 978-1-4020-6242-1.
Goulet, Henri; Huber, John T., eds. (1993). Hymenoptera of the world: An identification guide to families (PDF). Ottawa: Agriculture Canada. ISBN 0-660-14933-8. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2016-08-28.
Skvarla, Michael; Smith, David; Fisher, Danielle; Dowling, Ashley (9 May 2016). "Terrestrial arthropods of Steel Creek, Buffalo National River, Arkansas. II. Sawflies (Insecta: Hymenoptera: " Symphyta ")". Biodiversity Data Journal. 4 (4): e8830. doi:10.3897/BDJ.4.e8830. PMC 4867044. PMID 27222635.
Smith, David R (1979). "Suborder Symphyta". In Krombein, Karl V; Hurd, Paul V; Smith, David R; Burks, B D (eds.). Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press. pp. 3–137.
Smith, David R (March 2003). "A Synopsis of the Sawflies (Hymenoptera: Symphyta) of America South of the United States: Tenthredinidae (Nematinae, Heterarthrinae, Tenthredininae)". Transactions of the American Entomological Society. 129 (1): 1–45. JSTOR 25078795.