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Xeris
Sign in to saveXeris is a genus of horntails found in North America and Eurasia. Achille Costa circumscribed the genus in 1894.
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 10
- With media
- 5
- Family
- Siricidae
- Collections
- UAM, USNM
- Recorded in
- United States
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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.
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