Megalyridae

Classification and checklist of Afrotropical megalyrid wasps

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Megalyroidea; Family: Megalyridae)

MEGALYRIDAE Schletterer 1890
- Tribe Megalyrideini Shaw, 1990
  - Genus Megalyridia Hedqvist, 1959
    - Megalyridia capensis Hedqvist, 1959 (South Africa)
- Tribe Megalyrini Schletterer, 1890
  - Genus Megalyra Westwood, 1832
    - Megalyra fasciipennis Westwood, 1832 (South Africa: introduced from Australia)
- Tribe Dinapsini Waterston, 1922
  - Genus Dinapsis Waterston, 1922
    - Dinapsis albicauda Mita & Shaw, 2020 (Madagascar)
    - Dinapsis albicoxa Hedqvist, 1967 (Madagascar)
    - Dinapsis bicolor van Noort & Shaw, 2022 (South Africa)
    - Dinapsis centralis Shaw & van Noort, 2009 (Central African Republic)
    - Dinapsis cresta Mita & Shaw, 2020 (Madagascar)
    - Dinapsis gamka van Noort & Shaw, 2022 (South Africa)
    - Dinapsis hirtipes Hedqvist, 1967 (Madagascar)
    - Dinapsis igneus van Noort & Shaw, 2022 (Mauritius)
    - Dinapsis luteus Mita & Shaw, 2020 (Madagascar)
    - Dinapsis nubilis Hedqvist, 1967 (Madagascar)
    - Dinapsis oculohirta Hedqvist, 1967 (Madagascar)
    - Dinapsis planifrons Mita & Shaw, 2020 (Madagascar)
    - Dinapsis scriptus Mita & Shaw, 2020 (Madagascar)
    - Dinapsis seyrigi Hedqvist, 1967 (Madagascar)
    - Dinapsis spinitibia van Noort & Shaw, 2022 (Tanzania)
    - Dinapsis taita van Noort & Shaw, 2022 (Burundi, Kenya)
    - Dinapsis tricolor Shaw & van Noort, 2022 (Kenya, South Africa)
    - Dinapsis turneri Waterston, 1922 (South Africa)
    - Dinapsis zulu Shaw & van Noort, 2022 (South Africa)

References

Hedqvist, K.J. 1959. Hymenoptera (Ichneumonoidea) Megalyridae. South African Animal Life 6, 485-490

Hedqvist, K.J. 1967. Notes on Megalyridae (Hym. Ichneumonoidea) and description of new species from Madagascar. Annals Soc. Ent. France 3, 239-246.

Mita T & Shaw SR. 2020. A taxonomic study of Dinapsis Waterson, 1922 from Madagascar (Hymenoptera: Megalyridae, Dinapsini): crested wasps of the hirtipes species-group. Zootaxa 4858: 71–84. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4858.1.4

Shaw, S. R. 1990a. A taxonomic revision of the long-tailed wasps of the genus Megalyra Westwood (Hymenoptera: Megalyridae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 3:1000-1052.

Shaw, S. R. 1990b. Phylogeny and biogeography of the parasitoid wasp family Megalyridae (Hymenoptera). Journal of Biogeography 17:569-581.

Shaw, S.R. & van Noort, S. 2009. A new Dinapsis species from the Central African Republic (Hymenoptera: Megalyridae: Dinapsini). Zootaxa 2118: 30–36.

van Noort, S. & Shaw, S.R. 2009. Megalyridia capensis (Hymenoptera: Megalyridae: Megalyridiini) a relict species endemic to South Africa. African Natural History 5: 1-8.

van Noort S, Shaw S, Copeland R. 2022. Revision of the endemic African genus Dinapsis (Dinapsini, Megalyridae, Hymenoptera) with description of seven new species. ZooKeys 1112: 27-122. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1112.82307

Vilhelmsen, L. Perrichot, V. & Shaw, S.R. 2010. Past and present diversity and distribution in the parasitic wasp family Megalyridae (Hymenoptera). Systematic Entomology DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2010.00537.x

Waterston, J. 1922. A new family of Hymenoptera from South Africa. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 10, 418-420

Westwood J.O. 1832. In: Griffith E. Supplement on the Hymenoptera, pp 389-576. In: Cuvier G. Animal Kingdom, Class Insecta. Whittaker, Treacher and Co., London, 796 pp.