Taxonus Hartig, 1837

Macek, Jan, 2010, Taxonomy, distribution and biology of selected European Dinax, Strongylogaster and Taxonus species (Hymenoptera: Symphyta), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 50 (1), pp. 253-271 : 265

Taxonus Hartig, 1837

Taxonus is a heterogeneous, predominantly Holarctic genus which is present also in the Oriental Region. Three species occur in Europe and all of them are known from the Czech Republic. The Euro-Siberian species were revised and keyed by TAEGER (1986). The larvae of Taxonus are similar to those of Apethymus Benson, 1939 and Allantus Panzer,1801 , but differ from them by the absence of white conical tubercles on annulets 2 and 4 of the abdominal segments. Only the larva of Taxonus agrorum Fallén, 1808 has been known ( LORENZ & KRAUS 1957); the larvae of both remaining European species, T. sticticus Klug, 1914 and T. alboscutellatus Niezabitowski, 1899 , are newly described here. The larvae of all three European species are associated with Rosaceae .