NOMEN: Symphyta Gerstaecker 1867: 2 [A. Gerstaecker. Ueber die Gattung Oxybelus Latr. und die bei Berlin vorkommenden Arten derselben. – Zetschrift fur die Gesammen Naturwissenschaft, 1867, 30 (7): 1-96]
ORIGINAL SPELLING (Gerstaecker 1867): Hymenoptera symphyta
ORIGINAL LISTED MEMBERSHIP (Gerstaecker 1867):
SENIOR CIRCUMSCRIPTIONAL SYNONYMS:
= Ventrosessiles Latreille 1802
= Sessiliventres Latreille 1804
= Serricaudia Dumeril 1806
= Uroprista Dumeril 1806
= Phytiphaga Latreille 1807
= Pristuria Rafinesque 1815
= Securifera Latreille 1817
= Phytophaga Billberg 1820
= Serrifera Berthold 1827
= Phytospheces Leunis 1860
JUNIOR CIRCUMSCRIPTIONAL SYNONYMS:
= Sessiliventria Cameron 1883
= Chalastogastra Konov 1897
= Prohymenoptera Crampton 1916
= Chalastogastrina Pearce 1936
TYPIFIED NAME IN BASIC FORMAT: Tenthredo/fg (incl. Xyela, Sirex, Cephus, Orussus)
TYPIFIED NAMES IN USE: Tenthredines, Tenthredinidae, Tenthredaria, Tenthredinaria, Tenthredinoidea, Tenthredonidea
MODERN
STATUS: the valid (but far not the
oldest) name of a generally accepted plesiomrphon.
Systematic position of
Symphyta:
| Hymenoptera plesiomorphon Symphyta Apocrita plesiomorphon Parasitica Monotrocha |
COMMENT. In spite of the fact that the name Symphyta is far not the oldest among its circumscriptional synonyms, it is most widely used, and because of this can be valid.