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• Horntail — Horn tail , n. (Zo[ o]l.) Any one of family ({Urocerid[ae]}) of large hymenopterous insects, allied to the sawflies. The larv[ae] bore in the wood of trees. So called from the long, stout ovipositors of the females. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Horntail — Taxobox name = Horntails image width = 250px image caption = Giant horntail ( Urocerus gigas ) regnum = Animalia phylum = Arthropoda classis = Insecta ordo = Hymenoptera subordo = Symphyta superfamilia = Siricoidea familia = Siricidae subdivision …   Wikipedia

• horntail — noun Date: 1884 any of various hymenopterous insects (family Siricidae) related to the typical sawflies but having females with a stout hornlike ovipositor and larvae that burrow in woody plants …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• horntail — ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun : any of various insects constituting a family (Siricidae) of Hymenoptera related to the typical sawflies but having larvae that burrow in woody plants and on the females a stout hornlike ovipositor for depositing the egg within… …   Useful english dictionary

• Hymenoptera — Taxobox name = Hymenoptera fossil range=Triassic Recent image width = 240px image caption = female Andrena sp. regnum = Animalia phylum = Arthropoda classis = Insecta subclassis = Pterygota infraclassis = Neoptera superordo = Endopterygota ordo …   Wikipedia

• Tremex — Tre mex, n. [NL.] (Zo[ o]l.) A genus of large hymenopterous insects allied to the sawflies. The female lays her eggs in holes which she bores in the trunks of trees with her large and long ovipositor, and the larva bores in the wood. See Illust.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Tremex columba — Tremex Tre mex, n. [NL.] (Zo[ o]l.) A genus of large hymenopterous insects allied to the sawflies. The female lays her eggs in holes which she bores in the trunks of trees with her large and long ovipositor, and the larva bores in the wood. See… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Ovipositor — Grasshopper ovipositor (the two cerci are also visible) Fe …   Wikipedia

• Siricoidea — Taxobox name = Siricoidea image width = 250px image caption = Giant horntail ( Urocerus gigas ) regnum = Animalia phylum = Arthropoda classis = Insecta ordo = Hymenoptera subordo = Symphyta superfamilia = Siricoidea subdivision ranks = Families… …   Wikipedia

• Symphyta — ▪ insect       one of two suborders of the insect order Hymenoptera, the other being Apocrita. Included in the group are the sawfly, horntail, and wood wasp (qq.v.) the most primitive members of the order. The suborder includes several thousand… …   Universalium