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Megalodontes

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Suborder
  
Symphyta

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Hymenoptera

Superfamily
  
Megalodontesoidea

Megalodontes

Megalodontes is a genus of sawflies within the Symphyta belonging to the family Megalodontesidae subfamily Megalodontinae.

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Description

Megalodontes species are quite rare sawflies with a shiny black body and narrow pale yellow stripes on the abdomen. The head is large, the antennae are pectinate and the wings are reddish. These species are restricted to the temperate regions of Eurasia.

Species

  • Megalodontes bucephalus (Klug, 1824)
  • Megalodontes capitalatus Konow, 1904
  • Megalodontes cephalotes (Fabricius, 1781)
  • Megalodontes dusmeti Enslin, 1914
  • Megalodontes eversmanni (Freymuth, 1870)
  • Megalodontes fabricii (Leach, 1817)
  • Megalodontes flabellicornis (Germar, 1825)
  • Megalodontes flavicornis (Klug, 1824)
  • Megalodontes gratiosus (Mocsáry, 1881)
  • Megalodontes krausi Taeger, 1998
  • Megalodontes laticeps Konow, 1897
  • Megalodontes medius Konow, 1897
  • Megalodontes merceti Konow, 1904
  • Megalodontes mocsaryi (Ed. André, 1881)
  • Megalodontes mundus Konow, 1904
  • Megalodontes panzeri (Leach, 1817)
  • Megalodontes phaenicius (Lepeletier, 1823)
  • Megalodontes plagiocephalus (Fabricius, 1804)
  • Megalodontes scythicus Zhelochovtsev, 1988
  • Megalodontes spiraeae (Klug, 1824)
  • Megalodontes thor Taeger, 2002
  • Megalodontes turcicus (Mocsáry, 1881)
  • References

    Megalodontes Wikipedia