Megaspilidae
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| Mounted specimen of a male Dendrocerus sp. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| 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
[edit]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]
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