Megarhyssa

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Hymenopterida
Ordo: Hymenoptera
Subordo: Apocrita
Superfamilia: Ichneumonoidea

Familia: Ichneumonidae
Subfamilia: Rhyssinae
Genus: Megarhyssa
Species: M. atrata – M. gratiosa – M. greenei – M. macrurus – M. nortoni

Name

Megarhyssa Ashmead, 1900
Type species: Ichneumon clauatus Fabricius, 1798 (= perlatus Christ, 1791), by subsequent designation (Ashmead 1900).

Synonyms

Thalessa Holmgren, 1859 (Preoccupied by Thalessa Adams, 1853 (Mollusca))
Type species: Ichneumon clauatus Fabricius, 1798 (= perlatus Christ, 1791), by subsequent designation (Ashmead 1900).
Megarhyssa Ashmead, 1900: 368. (Replacement name for Thalessa Holmgren, 1859)
Megalorhyssa Schulz, 1906: 115. Unjustified emendation for Megarhyssa.
Eurhyssa Derksen, 1941
Type species: Ichneumon superbus Schrank, 1781, by subsequent designation (Townes & Townes 1951).

Megarhyssa greenei

References

Khalaim, A.I.; Ruíz-Cancino, E. 2013: A new species of Megarhyssa Ashmead (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Rhyssinae) from tropical Mexico with a key to Mexican species. Zootaxa 3619(2): 195–200. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3619.2.7 Reference page.

Vernacular names
English: Giant ichneumons

Megarhyssa, also known as giant ichneumonid wasps, giant ichneumons, or stump stabbers,[1] is a genus of large ichneumon wasps, with some species known for having the longest ovipositors of any insects. They are idiobiont endoparasitoids of the larvae of wood-boring horntail wasps. The ovipositor can be mistaken for a large stinger.
Species

Species within the genus:[2][3]

Megarhyssa arisana
Megarhyssa atomistica
Megarhyssa atrata
Megarhyssa aurantia
Megarhyssa babaulti
Megarhyssa belulliflava
Megarhyssa bicolor
Megarhyssa bonbonsana
Megarhyssa cultrimacularis
Megarhyssa fulvipennis
Megarhyssa gloriosa
Megarhyssa greenei
Megarhyssa hainanensis
Megarhyssa indica
Megarhyssa insulana
Megarhyssa jezoensis
Megarhyssa laniaria
Megarhyssa lenticula
Megarhyssa longitubula
Megarhyssa macrurus
Megarhyssa middenensis
Megarhyssa mirabilis
Megarhyssa nortoni
Megarhyssa obtusa
Megarhyssa perlata
Megarhyssa praecellens
Megarhyssa recava
Megarhyssa rixator
Megarhyssa rotundamacula
Megarhyssa strimacula
Megarhyssa superba
Megarhyssa taiwana
Megarhyssa vagatoria
Megarhyssa verae
Megarhyssa weixiensis
Megarhyssa wugongensis

References

Bug of the Month July 2014: Female Stump Stabbers laying eggs!!!, What's That Bug. Accessed 2015-06-07
Pook, Victoria; Sharkey, Michael; Wahl, David (2016-01-04). "Key to the species of Megarhyssa (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Rhyssinae) in America, north of Mexico". Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift. 63 (1): 137–148. doi:10.3897/dez.63.7619. ISSN 1860-1324.
Yu, Dicky Sick Ki. "Home". Home of Ichneumonoidea. Taxapad. Archived from the original on November 18, 2018.