Megaspilidae
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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:
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- Archisynarsis Szabó, 1973Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[1][2][3]
- Conostigmus Dahlbom, 1858Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[1][2][3]
- Creator Alekseev, 1980Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[1][2][3]
- Dendrocerus Ratzeburg, 1852Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[1][2][3]
- Holophleps Kozlov, 1966Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[1][2][3]
- Lagynodes Förster, 1841Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[1][2][3]
- Megaspilus Westwood, 1829Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[1][2][3]
- Platyceraphron Kieffer, 1906Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[1][2][3]
- Prolagynodes Alekseev & Rasnitsyn, 1981Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[1][2][3]
- Trassedia Cancemi, 1996Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[1][2][3]
- Trichosteresis Förster, 1856Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[1][2][3]
- Typhlolagynodes Dessart, 1981Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[1][2][3]
References
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