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Megastylus Schiødte

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera;  Superfamily: Ichneumonoidea; Family: Ichneumonidae; Subfamily: Orthocentrinae)

Megastylus Schiødte, 1838. Type species: Megastylus cruentator Schiødte, 1838.

 

Megastylus aethiopicus Benoit, 1955

 

Megastylus princeps Benoit, 1955

 

Megastylus semiluteus Benoit, 1955

Megastylus vagabundus Seyrig, 1934

Distributions

Worldwide

Biology

Hosts: Macrocera sp., Orfelia inops and O. billuus (Keroplatidae), Platyura sp. (Mycetophilidae). Older records in the literature of Eriocampa ovata and Eutomostethus ephippium (Tenthredinidea) acting as hosts are incorrect.

References

Rousse, P. & Villemant, C. 2012. Ichneumons in Reunion Island: a catalogue of the local Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera) species, including 15 new taxa and a key to species. Zootaxa 3278: 1–57.

Schiødte, G. 1838. Ichneumonidarum ad faunam Daniae pertinentium, genera et species novae. Revue Zoologique par la Société Cuvierienne. 1:139-141.

Yu D.S., van Achterberg, K., Horstmann, K. 2011. World Ichneumonoidea 2011. Taxonomy, biology, morphology and distribution. Available from Vancouver, Canada: Taxapad. www.taxapad.com

Credits

Photographs by Agnièle Touret-Alby © MNHN (specimens database http://coldb.mnhn.fr).

 

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Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2026. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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