Biology:Megastigmidae

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Short description: Family of wasps

Megastigmidae
Megastigmus Boevski.jpg
Megastigmus, Bulgaria
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Suborder: Apocrita
Infraorder: Proctotrupomorpha
Superfamily: Chalcidoidea
Family: Megastigmidae
Thomson, 1876

Megastigmidae is a family of chalcid wasps in the order Hymenoptera. There are about 12 genera and more than 170 described species in Megastigmidae. Megastigmidae was formerly considered a subfamily of the family Torymidae.[1][2][3][4]

Genera

These 12 genera belong to the family Megastigmidae:

  • Bootanelleus Girault, 1915
  • Bootania Dalla Torre, 1897
  • Bootanomyia Girault, 1915
  • Bortesia Pagliano & Scaramozzino, 1990
  • Ianistigmus Boucek, 1988
  • Macrodasyceras Kamijo, 1962
  • Malostigmus Boucek, 1988
  • Mangostigmus Boucek, 1986
  • Megastigmus Dalman, 1820
  • Neomegastigmus Girault, 1915
  • Paramegastigmus Girault, 1915
  • Westralianus Boucek, 1988


References

  1. Janšta, Petr; Cruaud, Astrid; Delvare, Gérard; Genson, Guénaëlle et al. (2018). "Torymidae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea) revised: molecular phylogeny, circumscription and reclassification of the family with discussion of its biogeography and evolution of life‐history traits". Cladistics 34 (6): 627–651. doi:10.1111/cla.12228. PMID 34706481. https://hal.inrae.fr/hal-02623044/file/Cladistics-12-2018.pdf. 
  2. "Megastigmidae". https://www.gbif.org/species/10121806. 
  3. Noyes, J.S. (2018). "Universal Chalcidoidea Database". Natural History Museum, London. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/chalcidoids. 
  4. Aguiar, A.P.; Deans, A.R.; Engel, M.S.; Forshage, M. et al. (2013). "Order Hymenoptera. In: Zhang Z-Q (ed) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classif. and survey of taxonomic richness (Addenda 2013)". Zootaxa 3703 (1). doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3703.1.12. ISBN 978-1-86977-849-1. 


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