Megaxyela
| Megaxyela | |
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| Megaxyela major, Oklahoma | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Xyelidae |
| Subfamily: | Macroxyelinae |
| Genus: | Megaxyela Ashmead, 1898 |
Megaxyela is a genus of sawflies in the family Xyelidae. There are about 13 described species in Megaxyela, found in the eastern Nearctic and in the southeastern part of East Asia. Two fossil species have been discovered, in Colorado and Shandong, China.
Megaxyela are external feeders of trees in the walnut family, Juglandaceae.[1][2][3][4]
Species
[edit]These 13 species belong to the genus Megaxyela:[1]
- Megaxyela bicoloripes (Rohwer, 1924)
- Megaxyela euchroma Blank, Shinohara & Wei, 2017
- Megaxyela fulvago Blank, Shinohara & Wei, 2017
- Megaxyela gigantea Mocsáry, 1909
- Megaxyela inversa Blank & D.R. Smith, 2017
- Megaxyela langstoni Ross, 1936, 2017
- Megaxyela major (Cresson, 1880)
- Megaxyela parki Shinohara, 1992
- Megaxyela pulchra Blank, Shinohara & Sundukov, 2017
- Megaxyela togashii Shinohara, 1992
- Megaxyela tricolor (Norton, 1862)
- † Megaxyela petrefacta Brues, 1908
- † Megaxyela yaoshanica Zhang, 1989
References
[edit]- ^ a b Blank, Stephan M.; Kramp, Katja; Smith, David R.; Sundukov, Yuri N.; et al. (2017). "Big and beautiful: the Megaxyela species (Hymenoptera, Xyelidae)of East Asia and North America". European Journal of Taxonomy. 348. doi:10.5852/ejt.2017.348.
- ^ Taeger, A.; Liston, A.D.; Prous, M.; Groll, E.K.; et al. (2018). "ECatSym – Electronic World Catalog of Symphyta (Insecta, Hymenoptera)". Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches Institut (SDEI), Müncheberg. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
- ^ "Megaxyela". GBIF. Retrieved 2021-10-29.
- ^ "Megaxyela genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2021-10-29.
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