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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Stephanidae |
| Tribe: | Megischini |
| Genus: | Megischus Brullé, 1846 |
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| Megischus annulator[1] Brullé, 1846[2]
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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]
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]
Taxonomic history
editThe French entomologist Gaspard Auguste Brullé first named the genus Megischus in 1846.[2]
In 1914, Viereck designated Megischus annulator, described by Brullé, as the type species of Megischus.
The French entomologist Frédéric Jules Sichel circumscribed the genus Bothriocerus in 1861. He initially included two species, described by him in the same work: B. europaeus and B. americanus.[6] In 1862, Sichel said that Bothriocerus was a junior synonym of Megischus.[7] Henry L. Viereck designated Bothriocerus europaeus to be the type species of Bothriocerus.[1]
Viereck considered Megischus, Prionopus, and ? to be junior synonyms of the genus Stephanus.[1]
Henry Townes considered the genus F, named by Enderlein in 1906, to be a junior synonym of Megischus and Bothriocerus.[8]
e (Aguiar 2004, 2006; van Achterberg and Yang 2004; van Achterberg and Quicke 2006)
Species
editMegischus anomalipes (Foerster, 1855)
Distribution
editMadagascar.[11]
Megischus Brullé is a cosmopolitan genus (Aguiar 2004; Hong et al. 2011). Aguiar and Johnson (2003) provided data on geographical distribution, biology and a key to the North American species of Megischus, including the Antilles. Aguiar (2006c) subsequently also revised the Mexican species. Aguiar (2006c) revised the Mexican species, describing new ones and offering a key
References
edit- ^ a b c Viereck, Henry L. (1914). "Type Species of the Genera of Ichneumon Flies". Bulletin of the United States National Museum. 83: 22, 91.
- ^ a b Brullé, Aug. (1846). Histoire naturelle des insectes. Hyménoptères. Vol. 4. Paris: Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret. pp. 537–540.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Sichel, [Frédéric Jules] (1861) ["1860"]. "Liste des Hyménoptères recueillis en Sicile par M. Bellier de la Chavignerie". Annales de la Société entomologique de France. 3. 8 (4): 759–761.
- ^ Sichel, [Frédéric Jules] (1862). "Observations hyménoptérologiques". Annales de la Société entomologique de France. 4. 2: 122.
- ^ Townes, Henry (1949). "The Nearctic Species of the Family Stephanidae (Hymenoptera)". Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 99 (3243): 363–370.
- ^ Carlson, Robert W. (1979). "Family Stephanidae". In Krombein, Karl V.; Hurd, Paul D., Jr; Smith, David R.; Burks, B. D. (eds.). Symphyta and Apocrita (Parasitica). Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. Vol. 1. Washington: Smithsonian Institution. p. 741.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: editors list (link) - ^ Hong, Chun-dan; van Achterberg, Cornelis; Xu, Zai-fu (2011). "A revision of the Chinese Stephanidae (Hymenoptera, Stephanoidea)". ZooKeys. 110: 7, 31–36. doi:10.3897/zookeys.110.918. PMC 3119843.
- ^ Madl, Michael (2017). "A catalogue of the family Stephanidae (Stephanoidea) of the Malagasy subregion (Insecta: Hymenoptera)" (PDF). Linzer biologische Beiträge. 49 (1): 24.
- ^ Achterberg, C. van; Yang, Z.-q. (2004). "New species of the genera Megischus Brullé and Stephanus Jurine from China (Hymenoptera: Stephanoidea: Stephanidae), with a key to world species of the genus Stephanus". Zoologische Mededelingen. 78 (3): 1–16.
- ^ Aguiar, Alexandre Pires; Johnson, Norman F. (2003). "Stephanidae (Hymenoptera) of America North of Mexico". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 105 (2): 467–483.
Further reading
edit- van Achterberg, C.; Quicke, D. L. J. (1 January 2006). "Taxonomic notes on Old World Stephanidae (Hymenoptera): description of Parastephanellus matsumotoi sp. n. from Japan, redescription of Commatopus xanthocephalus (Cameron) and keys to the genera Profoenatopus van Achterberg and Megischus Brullé" (PDF). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie. 149 (2): 215–225. doi:10.1163/22119434-900000202.
Further reading
edit- Aguiar, Alexandre P. (2004). "World catalog of the Stephanidae (Hymenoptera: Stephanoidea)". Zootaxa. 753 (1): 1–120. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.753.1.1.
- Aguiar, Alexandre P. (2006). "The Stephanidae (Hymenoptera) of Mexico, with description of six new species and key to western Foenatopus Smith" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1186: 1–56. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1186.1.1.