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Megaspilidae

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Megaspilidae
Mounted specimen of a male Dendrocerus sp.
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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

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These 13 genera belong to the family Megaspilidae:

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m "Megaspilidae Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m "Browse Megaspilidae". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m "Megaspilidae". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
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