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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps » Ceraphronid and Megaspilid Wasps (Ceraphronoidea) » Megaspilidae

Family Megaspilidae

Classification · Numbers · Identification · Works Cited
Parasitic wasp, post mortem - Dendrocerus Wasp Wasp SBBG-SCL-TIC_000180 SBBG-SCL-TIC_000180 SBBG-SCL-TIC_000180 SBBG-SCL-TIC_000180 SBBG-SCL-TIC_000863
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon ("Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps)
Superfamily Ceraphronoidea (Ceraphronid and Megaspilid Wasps)
Family Megaspilidae
Numbers
52 spp. in our area, ca. 450 described and ~1000 estimated spp. worldwide; ca. 35 spp. in Canada(1)
Identification
Antennae with 11 segments in both sexes. Both front and middle tibiae with two apical spurs. Large apical spur of front tibiae forked apically. Stigma usually large and semicircular, rarely absent or linear. Some are wingless/brachypterous. (2)
Wing venation similar and easy to confuse with similarly small aphelopine dryinids. Unlike the dryinids, megaspilid wings have only one (costal) vein and no long, narrow cell.
Works Cited
1.Hymenoptera of the world: an identification guide to families
Goulet H., Huber J., eds. 1993. Agriculture Canada Publication 1894/E. 668 pp.
2.Borror and DeLong's Introduction to the Study of Insects
Norman F. Johnson, Charles A. Triplehorn. 2004. Brooks Cole.
Contributed by Brad Barnd on 5 November, 2007 - 7:31pm
Additional contributions by josephfortier, Beatriz Moisset, v belov
Last updated 15 September, 2015 - 12:22am

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