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Megalyra Westwood

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera;  Superfamily: Megalyroidea; Family: Megalyridae; Tribe: Megalyrini)

Megalyra Westwood 1832

Key to Genera

Megalyra fasciipennis

Distribution

 Introduced into South Africa (Western Cape Province)

Biology

 Parasitoids of wood boring beetle larvae (Cerambycidae; Bostrychidae; Buprestidae) and mud-nesting sphecid wasp larvae (Hymenoptera)

Reference

 

 Shaw, S. R. 1990. A taxonomic revision of the long-tailed wasps of the genus Megalyra Westwood (Hymenoptera: Megalyridae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 3:1000-1052.

Westwood J.O. 1832. In: Griffith E. Supplement on the Hymenoptera, pp 389-576. In: Cuvier G. Animal Kingdom, Class Insecta. Whittaker, Treacher and Co., London, 796 pp.

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