Megaspilidae

Megaspilidae
Mounted specimen of a male Dendrocerus sp.
Scientific classification
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:

• Aetholagynodes Dessart, 1994 ^{[1] [2] [3]}
• Archisynarsis Szabó, 1973 ^{[1] [2] [3]}
• Conostigmus Dahlbom, 1858 ^{[1] [2] [3]}
• Creator Alekseev, 1980 ^{[1] [2] [3]}
• Dendrocerus Ratzeburg, 1852 ^{[1] [2] [3]}
• Holophleps Kozlov, 1966 ^{[1] [2] [3]}
• Lagynodes Förster, 1841 ^{[1] [2] [3]}
• Megaspilus Westwood, 1829 ^{[1] [2] [3]}
• Platyceraphron Kieffer, 1906 ^{[1] [2] [3]}
• Prolagynodes Alekseev & Rasnitsyn, 1981 ^{[1] [2] [3]}
• Trassedia Cancemi, 1996 ^{[1] [2] [3]}
• Trichosteresis Förster, 1856 ^{[1] [2] [3]}
• Typhlolagynodes Dessart, 1981 ^{[1] [2] [3]}

References

1. "Megaspilidae Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
2. "Browse Megaspilidae". Catalogue of Life. Archived from the original on April 12, 2018. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
3. "Megaspilidae". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-12.