Megaspilidae

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: Ceraphronoidea

Familia: Megaspilidae
Subfamiliae (2): Lagynodinae - Megaspilinae

Genera: Thaumastus – Conostigmus – Dendrocerus – Megaspilus – Trichosteresis
Name

Megaspilidae Ashmead, 1893

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

These 13 genera belong to the family Megaspilidae:

Aetholagynodes Dessart, 1994 i c g
Archisynarsis Szabó, 1973 i c g
Conostigmus Dahlbom, 1858 i c g b
Creator Alekseev, 1980 i c g
Dendrocerus Ratzeburg, 1852 i c g b
Holophleps Kozlov, 1966 i c g
Lagynodes Förster, 1841 i c g b
Megaspilus Westwood, 1829 i c g b
Platyceraphron Kieffer, 1906 i c g
Prolagynodes Alekseev & Rasnitsyn, 1981 i c g
Trassedia Cancemi, 1996 i c g
Trichosteresis Förster, 1856 i c g b
Typhlolagynodes Dessart, 1981 i c g

Data sources: i = ITIS,[1] c = Catalogue of Life,[2] g = GBIF,[3] b = Bugguide.net[4]
References

"Megaspilidae Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
"Browse Megaspilidae". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
"Megaspilidae". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
"Megaspilidae Family Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-12.