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Megalommum Szépligeti

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

Megalommum Szépligeti, 1900.

Curriea Ashmead, 1900. Type species: Curriea fasciatipennis Ashmead, 1900.

Endovipio Turner, 1922. Type species: Endovipio ceresensis Turner, 1922

  Megalommum acutum (Brandt, 2000)
  Megalommum angulicauda (Falco, 2000)
  Megalommum antevena (Falco, 2000)
  Megalommum brunneistigma (Falco, 2000)
  Megalommum bulbivena (Falco, 2000)
  Megalommum ceresensis (Turner, 1922)
  Megalommum emarginatum (Falco, 2000)
  Megalommum fasciatipennis (Ashmead, 1900)
  Megalommum fenestratum (Szépligeti, 1914)
  Megalommum fittoni (Falco, 2000)
  Megalommum flavomaculatum Cameron, 1904
  Megalommum fuscum (Falco, 2000)
  Megalommum gratiosum (Enderlein, 1920)
  Megalommum gratum (Enderlein, 1920)
  Megalommum guttifer (Enderlein, 1920)
  Megalommum inareata (Granger, 1949)
  Megalommum interstitialis Brandt, 2000
  Megalommum jacobsoni (Tobias, 1968)
  Megalommum leve (Falco, 2000)
  Megalommum longicauda (Falco, 2000)
  Megalommum luteistigma (Falco, 2000)
  Megalommum nigriventris (Szépligeti, 1913)
  Megalommum philippei (Falco, 2000)
  Megalommum platycauda (Falco, 2000)
  Megalommum polaszeki (Falco, 2000)
  Megalommum pulchripennis (Szépligeti, 1908)
  Megalommum rectivena (Falco, 2000)
  Megalommum seyrigi Granger, 1949
  Megalommum sigwalti (Falco, 2000)
  Megalommum spathicauda (Brandt, 2000)
  Megalommum striatum (Cameron, 1909)
  Megalommum testaceum (Cameron, 1909)
  Megalommum testaceipes (Szépligeti, 1914)
  Megalommum transiens (Szépligeti, 1914)
  Megalommum transvena (Falco, 2000)
  Megalommum tsavoensis (Falco, 2000)
  Megalommum xanthoceps (Fahringer, 1928)

Distribution

Afrotropical; Australasian; Oceanic; Oriental; Palaearctic regions.

Biology

Solitary endoparsitoids of Longhorn beetles (Cerambycidae) including economically important species such as the Pistachio longhorn beetle (Calchaenesthes pistacivora) (van Achterberg & Mehrnejad, 2011) and moths: Pansepta teleturga Oecophoridae (Quick, 1983).

References

Szepligeti, G. 1900. Braconiden aus New-Guinea in der Sammlung des Ungarischen National Museums. Termeszetrajzi Fuzetek 23:49-65.

Quicke, D.L.J.. 1983. Some new hosts records for genera and species of Braconinae (Hym., Braconidae) including economically important species. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine. 119:91-93.

van Achterberg, C. & Mehrnejad, M.R. 2011. A new species of Megalommum Szépligeti (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Braconinae); a parasitoid of the pistachio longhorn beetle (Calchaenesthes pistacivora Holzschuh; Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) in Iran. ZooKeys. 112:21-38.

Credits

 

Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2024. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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