Siricinae Billberg 1820
Creators: name: Archibald, S. B.
name: Rasnitsyn, A. P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Siricidae

description: Key to extant and extinct genera of Siricinae by forewing characters
1. Crossvein cu-a* antefurcal or slightly postfurcal (half or less its length distal to M+Cu)............................ 2
- Crossvein cu-a well postfurcal (more than half its length distal to M+Cu)........................................ 6
2(1). 2r-m lost, 3rm well developed.......................................................................... 3
- 2r-m and 3r-m both present (sometimes both weak or lost)................................................... 5
3(2). 2r-rs distal to 2m-cu, nearer end of long pterostigma........................................ Tremex Jurine, 1807
- 2r-rs placed more basally, near or basal to level of 2m-cu..................................................... 4
4(3). 2r-rs less than its length from pterostigmal end, membrane deeply infuscate basally and along anterior margin.......................................................................................... Afrotremex Pasteels, 1951
- 2r-rs more than its length from pterostigmal end, membrane pale, except darkened in anterior (especially mid-anterior) and apical parts of wing.............................................................. Eriotremex Benson, 1943
5(2). 1-M straight to gently curved........................................................... Xeris A. Costa, 1894
- 1-M strongly bent................................................................ Siricosoma Forsius, 1933
6(1). Cu1* distinct....................................................................... Sirex Linnaeus, 1758
- Cu1 absent or rudimentary............................................................................. 7
7(6). 1r-m long, joins R basal to Rs origin; cell 3rm shorter than high............................. Sirotremex Smith, 1988
- 1r-m short or absent, replaced with Rs+M................................................................. 8
8(7). 2r-m distal to 2m-cu.................................................... Xoanon Semenov-Tian-Shanskij, 1921
- 2r-m basal to 2m-cu.................................................................................. 9
9(8). 2r-m and 3r-m lost (former positions identifiable by slight bends of Rs and M); membrane with distinct transverse corrugation basal to 1-Rs, 1-M, cu-a, longitudinal corrugation distal to this............... Ypresiosirex Archibald & Rasnitsyn, 2016
- 2r-m and 3r-m present; wing membrane not transversally corrugated basally.................................... 10
10(9). 2r-rs distal to 2r-m.................................................................................. 11
- 2r-rs basal to 2r-m.................................................................................. 12
11(10). 1r-rs extremely short, almost its width long; Rs+M distinct although short....................... Teredon Norton, 1869
- 1r-rs distinct even though shorter than 2r-rs; Rs+M extremely short, almost its width long............................................................................................... Eoteredon Archibald, Aase & Nel, 2021
12(10). Length/width 3.2; apex angularly rounded; 1r-rs distinct although shorter than 2r-rs............ Urocerus Geoffroy, 1785
- length/width ca. 3.0; apex broadly rounded; 1r-rs extremely short, almost its width long........... Eourocerus gen. nov.
description: Published as part of Archibald, S. B. & Rasnitsyn, A. P., 2022, The early Eocene Eourocerus anguliterreus gen. et sp. nov. (Hymenoptera, Siricidae) from Republic, Washington, pp. 289-295 in Zootaxa 5105 (2) on page 293, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5105.2.8, http://zenodo.org/record/6332708