Urocerus gigas

TaxID: 222807

Basic Information

Urocerus gigas

Giant Wood Wasp, Pine Wood Wasp

Urocerus gigas, the giant woodwasp, banded horntail, or greater horntail, is a species of sawfly native to the Palearctic realm and North Africa but also reside in North America and Kelty since 2004. Though they are not wasps, their appearance resembles one due to mimicry. Adults are usually between 10 and 40 millimetres (1?2 and 1+1?2 inches) in length. Subspecies: Urocerus gigas gigas Urocerus gigas taiganus Urocerus gigas is a wood-boring insect that attacks softwoods of freshly felled logs/unhealthy trees. The species lives in discrete tunnels, frequently filled with hard-packed coarse fibrous frass, hard to dig out from tunnels. The tunnels are large, round and discrete, between 6 and 7 mm (1?4 and 9?32 in) in diameter. Both sexes have a chitinous spike emerging from the abdomen, derived from the last segment, which is found in all woodwasps. However, unlike in true wasps, the projection is harmless and the insect cannot sting. The second, longer and lower projection in females only is the ovipositor. The ovipositor has saw-like teeth which she uses to drill a hole, and then deposit her eggs, into wood. Urocerus flavicornis was once considered a subspecies of gigas but is now known to be a separate species.

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Taxonomic Information

Eukaryota

Arthropoda

Insecta

Hymenoptera

Siricidae

Urocerus

gigas

nan

Photos (5 photos)

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(c) Francesca Graziani@BY-NC
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(c) Levet Bernard@BY-NC
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(c) Tobias Gratzer@BY-NC

Morphological Features

No morphological description available.

Host Plants (0 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

No host plants available.

Quarantine Status (1 records)

Data sources: IPPC website and national quarantine websites; verified by human review.

Country Status Year Added
United States of America Quarantine pests —

Distribution (46 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

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Present
0
Absent
0
Unknown/Other
Country Status State
Andorra Present —
Argentina Present —
Australia Present —
Austria Present —
Belgium Present —
Bulgaria Present —
Bosnia and Herzegovina Present —
Belarus Present —
Canada Present —
Switzerland Present —
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Distribution Map (Latitude and longitude coordinates sourced from GBIF.)

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Genomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No genome records available.

Transcriptomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No transcriptome records available.

DNA Barcodes (22 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

Process ID BIN Marker Length Country Date Lat/Lon Sequence
TDAOE7596-25 BOLD:AAF8342 COI-5P 607 Austria 2024-08-03 47.204826, 12.349737
TDAAT1920-20 BOLD:AAF8342 COI-5P 658 Austria 2019-06-14 48.163, 16.077
SON250-10 BOLD:AAF8342 COI-5P 658 Norway 2010-08-14 59.941, 9.037
SON177-08 BOLD:AAF8342 COI-5P 657 Norway 2008-07-27 59.94, 9.0347
NOCLP2856-21 BOLD:AAF8342 COI-5P 658 Norway 2021-09-10 63.721, 8.882
NOCLP2855-21 BOLD:AAF8342 COI-5P 658 Norway 2021-09-10 63.721, 8.882
LEFIJ14915-20 BOLD:AAF8342 COI-5P 656 Finland 2019-08-10 65.1809, 25.5733
GMBSP2716-18 BOLD:AAF8342 COI-5P 651 Bulgaria 2017-05-31 42.6381, 23.298
GBMIX1840-15 BOLD:AAF8342 COI-5P 658 Germany 2010-04-17 53.419, 12.701
GBMIN8450-12 BOLD:AAF8342 COI-5P 658 Finland 2005-05-17 65.01579, 25.657385
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Literature