''Megalodontes'' is a genus of sawflies within the
Symphyta
Sawflies are the insects of the suborder Symphyta within the order Hymenoptera, alongside ants, bees, and wasps. The common name comes from the saw-like appearance of the ovipositor, which the females use to cut into the plants where they lay ...
belonging to the family
Megalodontesidae
The Megalodontesidae (until recently spelled Megalodontidae, a name already in use for a family of fossil molluscs) are a small family of sawfly, sawflies, containing a single living genus, ''Megalodontes'', with some 40 species restricted to the ...
subfamily
Megalodontesinae.
Description
''Megalodontes'' species are quite rare sawflies with a shiny black body and narrow pale yellow stripes on the abdomen. The head is large, the antennae are pectinate and the wings are reddish. These species are restricted to the temperate regions of Eurasia.
Species
* ''
Megalodontes bucephalus'' (Klug, 1824)
* ''
Megalodontes capitalatus'' Konow, 1904
* ''
Megalodontes cephalotes'' (Fabricius, 1781)
* ''
Megalodontes dusmeti'' Enslin, 1914
* ''
Megalodontes eversmanni'' (Freymuth, 1870)
* ''
Megalodontes fabricii'' (Leach, 1817)
* ''
Megalodontes flabellicornis'' (Germar, 1825)
* ''
Megalodontes flavicornis'' (Klug, 1824)
* ''
Megalodontes gratiosus'' (Mocsáry, 1881)
* ''
Megalodontes krausi
''Megalodontes'' is a genus of sawflies within the Symphyta belonging to the family Megalodontesidae
The Megalodontesidae (until recently spelled Megalodontidae, a name already in use for a family of fossil molluscs) are a small family of saw ...
'' Taeger, 1998
* ''
Megalodontes laticeps'' Konow, 1897
* ''
Megalodontes medius'' Konow, 1897
* ''
Megalodontes merceti'' Konow, 1904
* ''
Megalodontes mocsaryi'' (Ed. André, 1881)
* ''
Megalodontes mundus'' Konow, 1904
* ''
Megalodontes panzeri'' (Leach, 1817)
* ''
Megalodontes phaenicius'' (Lepeletier, 1823)
* ''
Megalodontes plagiocephalus'' (Fabricius, 1804)
* ''
Megalodontes scythicus'' Zhelochovtsev, 1988
* ''
Megalodontes spiraeae'' (Klug, 1824)
* ''
Megalodontes thor'' Taeger, 2002
* ''
Megalodontes turcicus'' (Mocsáry, 1881)
References
BiolibAramel.free.fr* R.B. Benson: Handbook for the identification of British insects. Vol IV: Hymenoptera. 2. Symphyta Section a. Published by the Royal Entomological Society of London, 1951.
Sawfly genera
Sawflies
Taxa named by Pierre André Latreille
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