Megischus

Megischus is a genus of crown wasp. It was circumscribed by Gaspard Auguste Brullé in 1846. The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution, and over eighty species are recognized.[3][4]

Megischus
Jean-Gabriel Prêtre's 1846 illustration of a female M. furcatus (5) and profile view of abdomen (5a)
M. bicolor
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Stephanidae
Tribe: Megischini
Genus: Megischus
Brullé, 1846
Type species
Megischus annulator[1]
Brullé, 1846[2]
Synonyms[3][4]

It is the type genus of the tribe Megischini, which was circumscribed by Michael S. Engel and David A. Grimaldi in 2004. This tribe is in the subfamily Stephaninae in the family Stephanidae; the other genera in this tribe are Hemistephanus and Pseudomegischus.[5]

Species include:[6]

  • Megischus alveolifer van Achterberg, 2004
  • Megischus anaxeus Aguiar, 2006
  • Megischus annulator Brullé, 1846

References
  1. Viereck, Henry L. (1914). "Type Species of the Genera of Ichneumon Flies". Bulletin of the United States National Museum. 83: 22, 91.
  2. Brullé, Aug. (1846). Histoire naturelle des insectes. Hyménoptères. Vol. 4. Paris: Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret. pp. 537–540.
  3. Achterberg, C. van (2002). "A revision of the Old World species of Megischus Brullé, Stephanus Jurine and Pseudomegischus gen. nov., with a key to the genera of the family Stephanidae (Hymenoptera: Stephanoidea)". Zoologische Verhandelingen. 339: 53–54.
  4. Chun-dan, Hong; van Achterberg, Kees; Zaifu, Xu (2010). "A new species of Megischus Brullé (Hymenoptera, Stephanidae) from China, with a key to the Chinese species". ZooKeys. 69: 59–64. doi:10.3897/zookeys.69.738. PMC 3088441.
  5. Engel, Michael S.; Grimaldi, David A. (2004). "The first Mesozoic stephanid wasp (Hymenoptera: Stephanidae)". Journal of Paleontology. 78 (6): 1195. doi:10.1017/S0022336000044000. JSTOR 4094946.
  6. "Megischus Brullé, 1846". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 10 May 2021.
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