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Megalyridae

Megalyrid wasps of Africa and Madagascar

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

ClassificationKey to GeneraTOL project: Megalyridae

Dinapsis

Megalyridia

Megalyra

Distribution

South America, Africa, southeast Asia and Australia

 

Biology

Parasitoids of Coleoptera larvae living under tree bark or rarely Pemphredonidae larvae.

References

Hedqvist, K.J. 1959. Hymenoptera (Ichneumonoidea) Megalyridae. South African Animal Life 6, 485-490

Hedqvist, K.J. 1967. Notes on Megalyridae (Hym. Ichneumonoidea) and description of new species from Madagascar. Annals Soc. Ent. France 3, 239-246.

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

Shaw, S. R. 1990b. Phylogeny and biogeography of the parasitoid wasp family Megalyridae (Hymenoptera). Journal of Biogeography 17:569-581.

Waterston, J. 1922. A new family of Hymenoptera from South Africa. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 10, 418-420

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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