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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Suborder: | Symphyta |
| Family: | Argidae |
| Genus: | Arge |
| Species: | A. similis |
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| Arge similis (Vollenhoven, 1860) | |
Arge similis, common name azalea argid sawfly, is an insect species from the family Argidae. [1] The species was originally described by Samuel Constantinus Snellen van Vollenhoven. [2] [3] [4]
A. similis is a solitary and phytophagous sawfly. [5] This stale-blue sawfly has a length about 10 millimetres, with a hairy head. It has a dark-blue colour and its head is covered with short hair. Its face has two grooves on both sides, with a protruding comb in between. This comb divides in two at the end. The wings are brownish black, with blueish-black veins. The wings are without dots, which distinguishes it from its look-a-like, Cibdela janthina . [2]
The species was described from four female samples which are part of the collection of the Natural History Museum, Leiden and collected by Philipp Franz von Siebold in Japan. [2] [3]
Sawflies are the insects of the suborder Symphyta within the order Hymenoptera, alongside ants, bees, and wasps. The common name comes from the saw-like appearance of the ovipositor, which the females use to cut into the plants where they lay their eggs. The name is associated especially with the Tenthredinoidea, by far the largest superfamily in the suborder, with about 7,000 known species; in the entire suborder, there are 8,000 described species in more than 800 genera. Symphyta is paraphyletic, consisting of several basal groups within the order Hymenoptera, each one rooted inside the previous group, ending with the Apocrita which are not sawflies.
Arge pagana is a sawfly in the family Argidae. It is known by the name "large rose sawfly" although the related species Arge ochropus is also known by this name.
Samuel Constant Snellen van Vollenhoven was a Dutch entomologist. He is not to be confused with Pieter Cornelius Tobias Snellen another entomologist from Rotterdam.
Jacob Rudolph Hendrik Neervoort van de Poll was a Dutch entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera. He was the vice-president of Artis, the Amsterdam zoo; a member of the Netherlands Entomological Society and the Société entomologique de France. The butterfly Troides vandepolli was named, by Samuel Constantinus Snellen van Vollenhoven, curator of the Leiden Museum, in his honour.
Phyllodes verhuelli is a noctuoid moth in the family Erebidae, subfamily Calpinae first described by Samuel Constantinus Snellen van Vollenhoven in 1858. The species can be found in lowland forests in Sundaland, southern Myanmar and the Philippines.
Phyllodes eyndhovii is a noctuoid moth in the family Erebidae, subfamily Calpinae. The species was first described by Samuel Constantinus Snellen van Vollenhoven in 1858. It is found in the Himalayas, western China, Taiwan, Thailand, Sundaland and Palawan.
Asota orbona is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Samuel Constantinus Snellen van Vollenhoven in 1863. It is found in Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Queensland.
Arge cyanocrocea, the bramble sawfly, is a species of sawflies of the family Argidae, subfamily Arginae.
Arge ochropus, the rose sawfly, is a species belonging to the family Argidae subfamily Arginae.
Arge is a genus of sawflies belonging to the family Argidae subfamily Arginae.
Arge melanochroa is a species of the family Argidae, subfamily Arginae.
Frederik Maurits van der Wulp was a Dutch entomologist mainly interested in Diptera.
Nyctemera luctuosa is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Samuel Constantinus Snellen van Vollenhoven in 1863. It is found in Papua New Guinea, Australia and the Philippines. The habitat consists of mountainous areas.
Pycnarmon marginalis is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Samuel Constantinus Snellen van Vollenhoven in 1890. It is found in Sikkim, India and Taiwan.
Arge berberidis, common name berberis sawfly, is a species of sawflies belonging to the family Argidae subfamily Arginae.
Caltoris brunnea, the dark branded swift is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It was described by Samuel Constantinus Snellen van Vollenhoven in 1876. It is found in the Indomalayan realm in Burma and in Java as subspecies C. b. caere.
Taenaris dioptrica is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It was described by Samuel Constantinus Snellen van Vollenhoven in 1860. It is found in New Guinea in the Australasian realm.
Taenaris artemis is a species of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It was first described by Samuel Constantinus Snellen van Vollenhoven in 1860. It is found in the Australasian realm
Charaxes (Polyura) cognatus, the Sulawesi blue nawab, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It was described by Samuel Constantinus Snellen van Vollenhoven in 1861. It is endemic to Sulawesi.
Elcysma westwoodi, commonly known as the white-tailed zygaenid moth, is a species of moth in the burnet moth family Zygaenidae. It has a Palaearctic distribution, being found in Japan, the Korean Peninsula, China, and the Russian Far East. The species was first described by Samuel Constantinus Snellen van Vollenhoven in 1863 as Agalope westwoodii.
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