''Megischus'' is a genus of
crown wasp. It was
circumscribed
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by
Gaspard Auguste Brullé
Gaspard Auguste Brullé (7 April, 1809 – 21 January, 1873) was a French entomologist.
Passionate about insects from a young age and through the intervention of Georges Cuvier, he participated in the Morea expedition organised by Jean Baptiste ...
in 1846. The genus has a
cosmopolitan distribution
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, and over eighty species are recognized.
It is the
type genus
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Zoological nomenclature
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of the
tribe
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Megischini, which was circumscribed by Michael S. Engel and David A. Grimaldi in 2004. This tribe is in the subfamily Stephaninae in the family
Stephanidae; the other genera in this tribe are ''
Hemistephanus'' and ''
Pseudomegischus''.
Species include:
*''
Megischus alveolifer''
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Megischus anaxeus''
*''
Megischus annulator''
References
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Stephanoidea
Hymenoptera genera