Megischus
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| Jean-Gabriel Prêtre's 1846 illustration of a female M. furcatus (5) and profile view of abdomen (5a) | |
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| M. bicolor | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Stephanidae |
| Tribe: | |
| Genus: | Megischus Brullé, 1846 |
| Type species | |
| Megischus annulator[1] Brullé, 1846[2]
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| Synonyms[3][4] | |
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Megischus is a genus of crown wasp. It was circumscribed by Gaspard Auguste Brullé in 1846. The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution, and over eighty species are recognized.[3][4]
It is the type genus of the tribe Megischini, which was circumscribed by Michael S. Engel and David A. Grimaldi in 2004. This tribe is in the subfamily Stephaninae in the family Stephanidae; the other genera in this tribe are and .[5]
Species include:[6]
- van Achterberg, 2004
- Aguiar, 2006
- Brullé, 1846
References[]
- ^ Viereck, Henry L. (1914). "Type Species of the Genera of Ichneumon Flies". Bulletin of the United States National Museum. 83: 22, 91.
- ^ Brullé, Aug. (1846). Histoire naturelle des insectes. Hyménoptères. Vol. 4. Paris: Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret. pp. 537–540.
- ^ a b Achterberg, C. van (2002). "A revision of the Old World species of Megischus Brullé, Stephanus Jurine and Pseudomegischus gen. nov., with a key to the genera of the family Stephanidae (Hymenoptera: Stephanoidea)". Zoologische Verhandelingen. 339: 53–54.
- ^ a b Chun-dan, Hong; van Achterberg, Kees; Zaifu, Xu (2010). "A new species of Megischus Brullé (Hymenoptera, Stephanidae) from China, with a key to the Chinese species". ZooKeys. 69: 59–64. doi:10.3897/zookeys.69.738. PMC 3088441.
- ^ Engel, Michael S.; Grimaldi, David A. (2004). "The first Mesozoic stephanid wasp (Hymenoptera: Stephanidae)". Journal of Paleontology. 78 (6): 1195. doi:10.1017/S0022336000044000. JSTOR 4094946.
- ^ "Megischus Brullé, 1846". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 10 May 2021.
Categories:
- Stephanoidea
- Hymenoptera genera