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The Megaspilidae are a small hymenopteran family with 13 genera in two subfamilies, and some 450 known species, with a great many species still undescribed. It is a poorly known group as a whole, though most are believed to be parasitoids (especially of
sternorrhyncha The Sternorrhyncha suborder of the Hemiptera contains the aphids, whiteflies, and scale insects, groups which were traditionally included in the now-obsolete order "Homoptera". "Sternorrhyncha" refers to the rearward position of the mouthparts re ...
n Hemiptera), and a few
hyperparasitoid A hyperparasite, also known as a metaparasite, is a parasite whose host, often an insect, is also a parasite, often specifically a parasitoid. Hyperparasites are found mainly among the wasp-waisted Apocrita within the Hymenoptera, and in two ...
s. Many are found in the soil, and of these, a number are wingless. The family is distinguished from the closely related Ceraphronidae by having a very large stigma in the wing, a relatively constricted
metasoma The metasoma is the posterior part of the body, or tagma, of arthropods whose body is composed of three parts, the other two being the prosoma and the mesosoma. In insects, it contains most of the digestive tract, respiratory system, and circul ...
l petiole, and three grooves in the mesoscutum. The largest genus within Megaspilidae is '' Dendrocerus''. The second largest genus is ''
Conostigmus ''Conostigmus'' is a genus of parasiotoid wasps belonging to the superfamily Ceraphronoidea. It is the second-largest genus within the family Megaspilidae (Johnson & Musetti 2004). The genus has a worldwide distribution with over 170 extant speci ...
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Genera

These 13 genera belong to the family Megaspilidae: * '' Aetholagynodes'' Dessart, 1994 i c g * '' Archisynarsis'' Szabó, 1973 i c g * ''
Conostigmus ''Conostigmus'' is a genus of parasiotoid wasps belonging to the superfamily Ceraphronoidea. It is the second-largest genus within the family Megaspilidae (Johnson & Musetti 2004). The genus has a worldwide distribution with over 170 extant speci ...
'' Dahlbom, 1858 i c g b * '' Creator'' Alekseev, 1980 i c g * '' Dendrocerus'' Ratzeburg, 1852 i c g b * '' Holophleps'' Kozlov, 1966 i c g * '' Lagynodes'' Förster, 1841 i c g b * '' Megaspilus'' Westwood, 1829 i c g b * '' Platyceraphron'' Kieffer, 1906 i c g * '' Prolagynodes'' Alekseev & Rasnitsyn, 1981 i c g * '' Trassedia'' Cancemi, 1996 i c g * ''
Trichosteresis ''Trichosteresis'' is a genus of Megaspilid wasps in the family Megaspilidae. There are at least three described species in ''Trichosteresis''. Species These three species belong to the genus ''Trichosteresis'': * ''Trichosteresis floridanus'' A ...
'' Förster, 1856 i c g b * '' Typhlolagynodes'' Dessart, 1981 i c g Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net


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