• Animals (Kingdom Animalia)

• Arthropods (Phylum Arthropoda)

• Hexapods (Subphylum Hexapoda)

• Insects (Class Insecta)

• Winged and Once-winged Insects (Subclass Pterygota)

• Ants, Bees, Wasps, and Sawflies (Order Hymenoptera)

• Sawflies, Horntails, and Wood Wasps (Suborder Symphyta)

• Typical Sawflies (Superfamily Tenthredinoidea)

• Argid Sawflies (Family Argidae)

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Family Argidae is a family of sawflies within the order Hymenoptera, comprising more than 900 described species distributed worldwide, with the greatest diversity in tropical and subtropical regions. Unlike the familiar bees and wasps, sawflies lack a narrow "wasp waist" and are among the most primitive members of the Hymenoptera. Adult argid sawflies are typically small to medium-sized insects with broad bodies, clubbed or three-segmented antennae, and often brightly coloured black, orange, or reddish markings. Females use their saw-like ovipositors to insert eggs into the leaves or stems of host plants.