Family Pergidae Rohwer

Tenthredinidea, Stirps 2, Stirps 3 Leach, 1817: 115, 118.
Tenthredinetae, Div. h, Div. 1 Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau, 1823: 115, 118.
Tenthredinidae (pt.) Kirby, 1882: 18-33, 89-97.
Perreyiidae Ashmead, 1898: 225-227.
Pterygophoridae Ashmead, 1898: 227-232.
Cimbicini (pt.) Konow, 1905a: 2-3, 10-12.
Lophyrini (pt.) Konow, 1905a: 2, 30-41.
Tenthredinidae (pt.) Konow, 1905a: 1-3, 10-12, 30-41.
Loboceridae Rohwer, 1911c: 226.
Pergidae Rohwer, 1911c: 218.
Tenthredinidae (pt.) Tillyard, 1926: 255.
Acorduleceridae Ross, 1937: 55.

CITATIONS

Froggatt 1890c [catalogue of described Hymenoptera of Australia: 691-696]; Ashmead 1898 [key to genera, systematics – classification: 225-232]; Konow 1898 [systematics – classification: 247-248]; Konow 1905a [key to genera, systematics – classification: 1-2, 10-12, 30-41]; Rohwer 1911c [classification of Tenthredinoidea including Perreyiidae, Pterygophoridae, Pergidae, Loboceridae: 218-220, 225-226]; Morice 1919 [key to genera, new taxon, revision/review: 254-258, 261-300]; Tillyard 1926 [diagnosis: 265]; Benson 1934 [key, systematics – classification: 461-462]; Benson 1935 [key to genera, systematics – classification: 222-229]; Ross 1937 [phylogeny, systematics – classification: 34, 37-38]; Benson 1938c [distribution (range), key, systematics – classification: 357, 358, 376-382]; Costa Lima 1960 [key: 294, 249-250]; Riek 1970a [key to subfamilies: 217-218]; Riek 1970b [key, key to genera: 888]; Smith 1978 [world catalogue: 135-181]; Rasnitsyn 1988 [phylogeny, systematics: 117]; Smith 1990 [synopsis, America south of the United States: 7-200]; Naumann 1991 [behaviour, diagnosis, key, key to genera: 932, 934-935]; Schedl 1991 [behaviour, diagnosis, host plant, systematics – classification: 15]; Macdonald & Ohmart 1993 [biology, habitat, host plant, life history: 485-501]; Smith 1993 [behaviour, distribution (range), economic importance, host plant, illustration of female, illustration of male, life history, natural enemies, systematics – classification: 10-11, 23, 25, 27]; Smith 1995b [biology, diagnosis, economic importance, key, key to genera: 160, 161, 162, 167-172]; Vilhelmsen 1996 [phylogeny, structure, systematics – classification: 143-170]; Vilhelmsen 1997 [phylogeny, systematics – classification]; Vilhelmsen 2000a [phylogeny, structure, systematics – classification: 185-221]; Vilhelmsen 2000c [internal anatomy, musculature, phylogeny, structure: 105-138]; Vilhelmsen 2001 [phylogeny, systematics – classification: 393-442]; Schulmeister 2003a [phylogeny, systematics – classification].

Taxonomy

Cameron (1878a: 2) proposed the family group name Pterygophorina including Pterygophorus for a subtribe within the family Tenthredinidae. Ashmead (1898: 225, 230-231) designated P. cinctus as the type species of Pterygophorus and was the first author who treated Pterygophoridae as a sawfly family, thus predating the introduction of the name Pergidae. In 1934, Benson combined the Pterygophoridae and the Perreyiidae of Rohwer (1911c) into the single family Pterygophoridae, and in 1938c he unified Pergidae and Pterygophoridae and used the name Pergidae for that family (Benson, 1938c:355). Since Benson’s major suprageneric revision, the family name Pergidae has been widely used in the literature and has been generally accepted. Recently Rasnitsyn (1988: 117) used the name Pterygophoridae for reasons of priority and synonymised the family name Pergidae, Ashmead 1898. However, in concordance with article 23.2 of fourth edition of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN 1999) the “Principle of Priority is used to promote stability and it is not intended to be used to upset a long-accepted name in its accustomed meaning by the introduction of a name that is its senior synonym or homonym…”, we conserve the name Pergidae despite the existence of an older family group name. Furthermore, in 1999 an application was submitted to the International Commission of Zoological Nomenclature to use its plenary powers to rule that the family group name Pergidae, Ashmead, 1898, be given precedence over Pterygophoridae, Cameron 1878 (case 3141). According to article 82 of the ICZN the use of the junior name is to be maintained while the case is under consideration.