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Megaspilidae
Sign in to saveThe 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.
Species
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderHymenoptera
- FamilyMegaspilidae
The treatment of this group is in line with that proposed by Masner and Dessart in 1967.
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 5,405
- With media
- 24
- Family
- Megaspilidae
- Collections
- USNM, UAM
- Recorded in
- United States
Wikidata facts
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- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Ceraphronoidea
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- Megaspilidae
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- Megaspilidae
- topic's main category
- Category:Megaspilidae
- taxon common name
- kommavepser
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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.
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