Megaspilidae
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| Mounted specimen of a male Dendrocerus sp. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Superfamily: | Ceraphronoidea |
| Family: | Megaspilidae |
The Megaspilidae are a small hymenopteran family with 13 genera in two subfamilies, and some 450 known species, with a great many species still undescribed. It is a poorly known group as a whole, though most are believed to be parasitoids (especially of sternorrhynchan Hemiptera), and a few hyperparasitoids. Many are found in the soil, and of these, a number are wingless.
The family is distinguished from the closely related Ceraphronidae by having a very large stigma in the wing, a relatively constricted metasomal petiole, and three grooves in the mesoscutum.
The largest genus within Megaspilidae is Dendrocerus. The second largest genus is Conostigmus.
Genera[]
These 13 genera belong to the family Megaspilidae:
- Dessart, 1994 i c g
- Szabó, 1973 i c g
- Conostigmus Dahlbom, 1858 i c g b
- Alekseev, 1980 i c g
- Dendrocerus Ratzeburg, 1852 i c g b
- Kozlov, 1966 i c g
- Förster, 1841 i c g b
- Westwood, 1829 i c g b
- Kieffer, 1906 i c g
- Alekseev & Rasnitsyn, 1981 i c g
- Cancemi, 1996 i c g
- Trichosteresis Förster, 1856 i c g b
- Dessart, 1981 i c g
Data sources: i = ITIS,[1] c = Catalogue of Life,[2] g = GBIF,[3] b = Bugguide.net[4]
References[]
- ^ "Megaspilidae Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
- ^ "Browse Megaspilidae". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
- ^ "Megaspilidae". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
- ^ "Megaspilidae Family Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
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