Xeris
{{Short description|Genus of sawflies}}
{{automatic taxobox
|image=Xeris spectrum Goeze 1778.jpg
|image_caption=Type species: X spectrum
|image2=Xeris morrisoni Howard 1901.png
|image2_caption=X. morrisoni.
|taxon=Xeris
|authority = A. Costa, 1894
|type_species=Ichneumon spectrum
|type_species_authority=Linnaeus, 1758
|synonyms={{species list|Neoxeris|Saini & Dingh, 1987}}
|diversity=16 species
}}
Xeris is a genus of horntails found in North America and Eurasia. Achille Costa circumscribed the genus in 1894.
Synonyms
In 1987, Malkiat S. Saini and Devinder Singh circumscribed a new genus, Neoxeris upon their description of a new species, which they called Neoxeris melanocephala. In 2012, N. melanocephala was transferred to Xeris, making Neoxeris a junior synonym. X. melanocephalus was later synonymized with X. himalayensis.
Description
Distribution
Xeris species are found in North America and Eurasia. In North America, they're found from the boreal forests in Alaska and Canada south through Chiapas in southern Mexico. They are found in temperate and boreal regions of Eurasia as well as mountains of southern Eurasia including Morocco, India, China, and Taiwan.{{rp|42}}
Species
{{As of|2015}}, Xeris consists of sixteen species:
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- Xeris caudatus {{small|(Cresson, 1865)}}
- Xeris chiricahua {{small|Smith, 2012}}
- Xeris cobosi {{small|Viedma & Suárez, 1961}}
- Xeris degrooti {{small|Goulet, 2015}}
- Xeris himalayensis {{small|Bradley, 1934}}
- Xeris indecisus {{small|(MacGillivray, 1893)}}
- Xeris malaisei {{small|Maa, 1949}}
- Xeris melancholicus {{small|(Westwood, 1874)}}
- Xeris morrisoni {{small|(Cresson, 1880)}}
- Xeris pallicoxae {{small|Goulet, 2015}}
- Xeris spectrum {{small|(Linnaeus, 1758)}}
- Xeris tarsalis {{small|(Cresson, 1880)}}
- Xeris tropicalis {{small|Goulet, 2012}}
- Xeris umbra {{small|Goulet, 2015}}
- Xeris xanthoceros {{small|Goulet, 2015}}
- Xeris xylocola {{small|Goulet, 2015}}
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