| Megastigmus | |
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| Megastigmus viggianii | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Suborder: | Apocrita |
| Superfamily: | Chalcidoidea |
| Family: | Megastigmidae |
| Genus: | Megastigmus Dalman, 1820 |
Megastigmus is a genus of minute wasps. There are more than 134 described species, more than half of which undergo larval development within the seeds of trees and shrubs.
List of species
- Megastigmus acaciae Noble, 1939
- Megastigmus aculeatus (Swederus, 1795)
- Megastigmus adelaidensis Girault, 1915
- Megastigmus amamoori Girault, 1925
- Megastigmus amicorum Boucek, 1969
- Megastigmus asteri Ashmead, 1900
- Megastigmus atedius Walker, 1851
- Megastigmus ater (Girault, 1927)
- Megastigmus banksiae (Girault, 1929)
- Megastigmus bipunctatus (Swederus, 1795)
- Megastigmus borriesi Crosby, 1913
- Megastigmus borus Walker, 1839
- Megastigmus brachychitoni Froggatt, 1905
- Megastigmus brachyscelidis Ashmead, 1900
- Megastigmus brevicaudis Ratzeburg, 1852
- Megastigmus brevivalvus (Girault, 1926)
- Megastigmus cecili Girault, 1929
- Megastigmus copelandi Roques & Copeland, 2016
- Megastigmus cotoneastri Nikolskaya, 1952
- Megastigmus cynipedis (Cuvier, 1833)
- Megastigmus darlingi (Girault, 1940)
- Megastigmus dorsalis (Fabricius, 1798)
- Megastigmus drances Walker, 1839
- Megastigmus duclouxiana Roques & Pan, 1995
- Megastigmus dumicola Boucek, 1982
- Megastigmus eucalypti Girault, 1915
- Megastigmus fieldingi Girault, 1915
- Megastigmus flavivariegatus Girault, 1915
- Megastigmus fulvipes (Girault, 1913)
- Megastigmus fuscicornis Girault, 1913
- Megastigmus gravis Nikolskaya, 1966
- Megastigmus grewianae Roques & Copeland, 2016
- Megastigmus grotiusi Girault, 1915
- Megastigmus helinae Roques & Copeland, 2016
- Megastigmus herndoni Girault, 1935
- Megastigmus hilaris Girault, 1929
- Megastigmus hilli Dodd, 1917
- Megastigmus hoffmeyeri Walley, 1932
- Megastigmus iamenus Walker, 1839
- Megastigmus icipeensis Roques & Copeland, 2016
- Megastigmus lanneae Roques & Copeland, 2016
- Megastigmus lasiocarpae Crosby, 1913
- Megastigmus laventhali Roques & Copeland, 2016
- Megastigmus likiangensis Roques & Sun, 1995
- Megastigmus limoni (Girault, 1926)
- Megastigmus longicauda Girault, 1913
- Megastigmus maculatipennis (Girault, 1913)
- Megastigmus melleus Girault, 1915
- Megastigmus mercatori (Girault, 1940)
- Megastigmus milleri Milliron, 1949
- Megastigmus nigripropodeum Girault, 1934
- Megastigmus nigrovariegatus Ashmead, 1890
- Megastigmus ozoroae Roques & Copeland, 2016
- Megastigmus pallidiocellus Girault, 1929
- Megastigmus pascali (Girault, 1933)
- Megastigmus pergracilis Girault, 1915
- Megastigmus pictus (Förster, 1841)
- Megastigmus pingii Roques & Sun, 1995
- Megastigmus pinsapinis Hoffmeyer, 1931
- Megastigmus pinus Parfitt, 1857
- Megastigmus pistaciae Walker, 1871
- Megastigmus quadrifasciativentris Girault, 1915
- Megastigmus quadrisetae Girault, 1927
- Megastigmus quinquefasciatus Girault, 1915
- Megastigmus quinquesetae (Girault, 1934)
- Megastigmus rafni Hoffmeyer, 1929
- Megastigmus rigidae Xu & He, 1998
- Megastigmus rosae Bouček, 1971
- Megastigmus schimitscheki Novitzky, 1954
- Megastigmus sexsetae Girault, 1927
- Megastigmus sichuanensis Doğanlar & Zheng, 2017
- Megastigmus smithi Roques & Copeland, 2016
- Megastigmus speciosus Girault, 1915
- Megastigmus specularis Walley, 1932
- Megastigmus spermotrophus Wachtl, 1893
- Megastigmus stigmatizans (Fabricius, 1798)
- Megastigmus strobilobius Ratzeburg, 1848
- Megastigmus sulcicollis Cameron, 1912
- Megastigmus suspectus Borries, 1895
- Megastigmus synophri Mayr, 1874
- Megastigmus tasmaniensis Girault, 1913
- Megastigmus thyoides Kamijo, 1997
- Megastigmus tostini Girault, 1934
- Megastigmus transvaalensis (Hussey, 1956)
- Megastigmus trisulcatus (Girault, 1915)
- Megastigmus trisulcus (Girault, 1934)
- Megastigmus usakensis Doğanlar & Zengin, 2018
- Megastigmus viggianii Narendran & Sureshan, 1988
- Megastigmus voltairei (Girault, 1925)
- Megastigmus wachtli Seitner, 1916
- Megastigmus walsinghami Girault, 1929
References
- bugguide.net
- BioLib.cz
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- ^ Roques, Alain; Copeland, Robert S.; Soldati, Laurent; Denux, Olivier; Auger-Rozenberg, Marie-Anne (2016). "Megastigmus seed chalcids (Hymenoptera, Torymidae) radiated much more on Angiosperms than previously considered. I- Description of 8 new species from Kenya, with a key to the females of Eastern and Southern Africa". ZooKeys (585): 51–124. Bibcode:2016ZooK..585...51R. doi:10.3897/zookeys.585.7503. PMC 4857038. PMID 27199604.
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