Megastigmus

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Megastigmus
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Megastigmus viggianii
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Megastigmidae
Genus: Megastigmus
Dalman, 1820 [1]
Species

(see article text)

Synonyms [1]
  • Cycloneura Ashmead, 1904
  • Cycloneuron Dahlbom, 1857
  • Cycloneurum Schulz, 1906
  • Eumegastigmus Hussey, 1956
  • Megalostigmus Schulz, 1906
  • Trogocarpus Rondani, 1877
  • Xanthosomoides Girault, 1913

Megastigmus is a genus of minute wasps. [2] [3] There are more than 134 described species, more than half of which undergo larval development within the seeds of trees and shrubs. [4]

List of species

References

  1. 1 2 "Megastigmus Dalman, 1820". Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera. Archived from the original on 4 December 2024. Retrieved 2 February 2025.
  2. ↑ bugguide.net
  3. ↑ BioLib.cz
  4. ↑ Paulson, AR; von Aderkas, P; Perlman, SJ (25 September 2014). "Bacterial associates of seed-parasitic wasps (Hymenoptera: Megastigmus)". BMC Microbiol. 14: 224. doi: 10.1186/s12866-014-0224-4 . PMC   4197294 . PMID   25286971.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Roques, Alain; Copeland, Robert S.; Soldati, Laurent; Denux, Olivier; Auger-Rozenberg, Marie-Anne (2016). "Megastigmus seed chalcids (Hymenoptera, Torymidae) radiated much more on Angiosperms than previously considered. I- Description of 8 new species from Kenya, with a key to the females of Eastern and Southern Africa". ZooKeys (585): 51–124. Bibcode:2016ZooK..585...51R. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.585.7503 . PMC   4857038 . PMID   27199604.
  6. 1 2 3 Roques, Alain; Sun, Jiang-Hua; Pan, Yong-Zhi; Zhang, Xu-Dong (1995). "Contribution to the knowledge of seed chalcids, Megastigmus spp. (Hymenoptera : Torymidae), in China, with the description of three new species". Journal of the Swiss Entomological Society . 68 (1–2): 211–223. doi:10.5169/seals-402594.
  7. ↑ Xu, Zhihong; He, Junhua; Liu, Zhongren (1998). "Description on a new species of torymidae (Hymenoptera:chalcidoidea)". Entomotaxonomia. 20 (4): 297–299.
  8. ↑ Doğanlar, Mikdat; Huang, Zong-You; Guo, Chun-Hui; Lu, Wen; Yang, Zhende; Yang, Xiu-Hao; Zheng, Xia-Lin (2017). "A NEW SPECIES OF MEGASTIGMUS (HYMENOPTERA: TORYMIDAE: MEGASTIGMINAE) FROM CHINA". Munis Entomology and Zoology Journal. 12 (2): 368–374.
  9. ↑ Turgeon, J.J.; Kamijo, K.; DeBarr, G. (1997). "A new species of Megastigmus Dalman (Hymenoptera: Torymidae) reared from seeds of Atlantic white cedar (Cupressaceae), with notes on infestation rates" (PDF). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington . 99 (4): 608–613.
  10. ↑ Doğanlar, Mikdat; Zengin, Erdal (2018). "A NEW SPECIES OF MEGASTIGMUS (HYMENOPTERA: TORYMIDAE: MEGASTIGMINAE) FROM UŞAK, TURKEY". Munis Entomology and Zoology Journal. 13 (1): 288–291.
  11. ↑ Narendran, Thekke C.; Sureshan, Pavittu M. (1988). "A contribution to our knowledge of Torymidae of India (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea)" (PDF). Bollettino del Laboratorio di Entomologia Agraria Filippo Silvestri. 45: 37–47.
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