Pseudomegischus van Achterberg, 2002

Tan, Jiang-Li, Fan, Xu-Lei, van Achterberg, Cornelis & Li, Tao, 2015, A new species of Pseudomegischus van Achterberg from China, with a key to the species (Hymenoptera, Stephanidae), ZooKeys 537, pp. 103-110 : 104

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Stephanidae

Pseudomegischus van Achterberg, 2002 Figs 1-3, 4-13

Pseudomegischus van Achterberg, 2002: 169; Aguiar 2004: 73-74 (list of literature); Hong et al. 2011: 7. Type species (by original designation): Stephanus sulcifrons Schletterer, 1889.

Diagnosis.

Temple with pale yellowish streak (Fig. 5); vertex anteriorly and stemmaticum (= ocellar area) with shallow median groove (Figs 10-11); pronotum with weak or strong transverse protuberance (Fig. 3); neck with two strong converging carinae laterally and antero-medially with triangular protuberance (Fig. 6); vein 1-M of fore wing 3.1-4.8 × vein 1-SR; vein 1-SR of fore wing straight (Fig. 4); hind tibia with small round pit at top of depression; outer side of hind tibia with oblique striae or carinae (Fig. 7); hind femur with two large teeth (Fig. 7); pygidial process in both sexes present (Fig. 13); ovipositor sheath without ivory subapical band (Fig. 1).

Distribution.

Indo-Australian.

Biology.

Presumably ectoparasitoid of Cerambycidae and/or Siricidae .

Key to species of the genus Pseudomegischus