Anaxyelidae

Summary

Anaxyelidae is a family of incense cedar wood wasps in the order Hymenoptera. It contains only one living genus, Syntexis, which has only a single species, native to Western North America.[1][2][3] Fossils of the family extend back to the Middle Jurassic, belonging to over a dozen extinct genera, with a particularly high diversity during the Early Cretaceous. Syntexis lay eggs in the sapwood of conifers, preferring recently burnt wood.[4]

Anaxyelidae
Temporal range: Middle Jurassic–Recent
Syntexis libocedrii
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
(unranked): Unicalcarida
Superfamily: Siricoidea
Family: AnaxyelidaeMartynov 1925 Genera See text Genera edit

These genera belong to the family Anaxyelidae:

Taxonomy after[4]

  • Subfamily Syntexinae
  • Subfamily Anaxyelinae
    • Anasyntexis Rasnitsyn, 1968 Karabastau Formation, Middle/Late Jurassic (Callovian-Oxfordian)
    • Anaxyela Martynov, 1925 Karabastau Formation, Middle/Late Jurassic (Callovian-Oxfordian)
    • Brachysyntexis Rasnitsyn, 1969 Daohugou, China, Middle Jurassic (Callovian), Karabastau Formation, Middle/Late Jurassic (Callovian-Oxfordian), Yixian Formation, China, Aptian, Khasurty, Zaza Formation, Russia, Early Cretaceous (Aptian)
    • Dolichostigma Rasnitsyn, 1968 Zaza Formation, Russia, Early Cretaceous (Aptian)
    • Kempendaja Rasnitsyn, 1968 Khaya Formation, Russia, Late Jurassic (Tithonian)
    • Kulbastavia Rasnitsyn, 1968 Karabastau Formation, Middle/Late Jurassic (Callovian-Oxfordian)
    • Mangus Kopylov, 2019[5] Dzun-Bain Formation, Mongolia, Early Cretaceous (Aptian)
    • Sphenosyntexis Rasnitzyn, 1969 Karabastau Formation, Middle/Late Jurassic (Callovian-Oxfordian)
    • Syntexyela Rasnitsyn, 1968 Karabastau Formation, Middle/Late Jurassic (Callovian-Oxfordian), Yixian Formation, China, Aptian
    • Urosyntexis Rasnitzyn, 1969 Karabastau Formation, Middle/Late Jurassic (Callovian-Oxfordian), Khasurty, Zaza Formation, Russia, Early Cretaceous (Aptian)

References edit

  1. ^ Taeger, A.; Liston, A.D.; Prous, M.; Groll, E.K.; et al. (2018). "ECatSym – Electronic World Catalog of Symphyta (Insecta, Hymenoptera)". Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches Institut (SDEI), Müncheberg. Retrieved 2019-06-01.
  2. ^ Aguiar, A.P.; Deans, A.R.; Engel, M.S.; Forshage, M.; et al. (2013). Zhang, Zhi-Qiang (ed.). "Order Hymenoptera. In: Zhang Z-Q (ed) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classif. and survey of taxonomic richness (Addenda 2013)". Zootaxa. 3703 (1): 1–82. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3703.1.12. ISBN 978-1-86977-849-1. ISSN 1175-5326. PMID 26146682.
  3. ^ a b c Gao, Jia; Engel, Michael S.; Shih, Chungkun; Ren, Dong; Gao, Taiping (2021-10-29). "A new genus of anaxyelid wood wasps from the mid-Cretaceous and the phylogeny of Anaxyelidae (Hymenoptera)". Journal of Hymenoptera Research. 86: 151–169. doi:10.3897/jhr.86.73161. ISSN 1314-2607. S2CID 240258376.
  4. ^ a b c d KOPYLOV, DMITRY S. (2019-05-09). "New anaxyelids (Hymenoptera: Anaxyelidae) from the Cretaceous of Asia". Zootaxa. 4603 (2): 341. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4603.2.7. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 31717231. S2CID 164717860.
  5. ^ Kopylov, Dmitry S.; Rasnitsyn, Alexander P.; Zhang, Haichun; Zhang, Qi (2020-01-02). "Anaxyelidae of Daohugou: oldest occurrences of the relict family in the fossil record. Part 1: Daosyntexis and Brachysyntexis". Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology. 44 (1): 104–114. doi:10.1080/03115518.2019.1697753. ISSN 0311-5518. S2CID 213022739.
  6. ^ Wang, Yimo; Wang, Mei; Rasnitsyn, A.P.; Shih, Chungkun; Ren, Dong; Kopylov, Dmitry S.; Gao, Taiping (May 2020). "A new anaxyelid sawfly (Insecta, Hymenoptera, Siricoidea) in mid-Cretaceous Myanmar amber". Cretaceous Research. 109: 104372. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2020.104372. ISSN 0195-6671. S2CID 213923812.

Further reading edit

  • Goulet, H.; Huber, J., eds. (1993). Hymenoptera of the world: an identification guide to families. Agriculture Canada Publication. Vol. 1894/E. Research Branch, Agriculture Canada.
  • Sharkey, M. J.; Carpenter, J. M.; Vilhelmsen, L. (2012). "Phylogenetic relationships among superfamilies of Hymenoptera" (PDF). Cladistics. 28 (1): 80–112. doi:10.1111/j.1096-0031.2011.00366.x. ISSN 0748-3007. PMID 34861753. S2CID 33628659.