Megalyrini Schletterer, 1889, 2009

Brazidec, Manuel, Vilhelmsen, Lars, Boudinot, Brendon E., Richter, Adrian, Hammel, Joerg U., Perkovsky, Evgeny E., Fan, Yong, Wang, Zhen, Wu, Qiong, Wang, Bo & Perrichot, Vincent, 2024, Unveiling ancient diversity of long-tailed wasps (Hymenoptera: Megalyridae): new taxa from Cretaceous Kachin and Taimyr ambers and their phylogenetic affinities, Arthropod Systematics & amp; Phylogeny 82, pp. 151-181 : 151

3.2.3. Tribe Megalyrini Schletterer, 1889

Cretodinapsini Rasnitsyn, 1977 syn. nov.

Prodinapsini Shaw, 1990b

Type genus.

Megalyra Westwood, 1832.

Emended diagnosis.

Head hypognathous; compound eye often with distinct setation; flagellomeres elongate; median sulcus on vertex present; occipital carina present, curving towards mandible. Parapsidal lines absent. Fore wing with C, Sc+R, 1A, Rs+M, basal segment of M, R1, r-rs and small segment of Rs tubular. Metasoma elongate, subcylindrical, longer than mesosoma.

Genera and species included.

† C. caucasica Rasnitsyn, 1977, M. aquilonia Shaw, 1990, M. australia Girault, 1925, † M. baltica Poinar & Shaw, 2007, M. brevicauda Shaw, 1990, M. caledonica Vachal, 1908, M. candata Szépligeti, 1902, M. exigua Shaw, 1990, M. fasciipennis Westwood, 1832, M. globula Shaw, 1990, M. gnoma Shaw, 1990, M. lilliputiana Turner, 1916, M. longiseta Szépligeti, 1902, M. minuta Froggatt, 1906, M. nanella Shaw, 1990, M. plana Shaw, 1990, M. pygmaea Shaw, 1990, M. reiki Shaw, 1990, M. rufipes Erichson, 1841, M. rufiventris Szépligeti, 1902, M. sedlaceki Shaw, 1990, M. shuckardi Westwood, 1851, M. spectabilis Shaw, 1990, M. tawiensis Petersen, 1966, M. testaceipes Turner, 1916, M. transversistriata Girault, 1925, M. troglodytes Naumann, 1987, M. viridescens Froggatt, 1906, M. wagneri Fahringer, 1928, † P. bruesi (Perrichot, 2009), † P. janzeni Perrichot, 2009, † P. minor Brues, 1933, † P. oesiensis Perrichot, 2009, † P. prolata (Perrichot & Perkovsky, 2009), † P. pumilio Perrichot & Perkovsky, 2009, † P. succinalis Brues, 1923.

Comments.

The tribe Megalyrini is expanded based on the results of the phylogenetic analyses. The genus † Cretodinapsis is retrieved to be sister of Megalyra , rendering the † Cretodinapsini paraphyletic. Therefore, † Cretodinapsini is synonymized with Megalyrini , with † Cretodinapsis and † Prodinapsis now components of the latter tribe.