Megaplectes Forster 1869
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Genus Megaplectes Förster, 1869
Megaplectes Förster, 1869: 186. Type species: Ichneumon monticola Gravenhorst, 1829. Included by Schmiedeknecht (1890).
Iocryptus Thomson, 1873: 472. Phygadeuon regius Taschenberg, 1865 (= Ichneumon monticola Gravenhorst, 1829). Monotypic.
Megaloplectes Schulz, 1906: 124. Emendation.
A single species including two subspecies, Meg. monticola monticola (Gravenhorst, 1829) and Meg. monticola dentatus Uchida, 1930, have been recorded from Japan. Uchida (1936b) recorded Meg. monticola (Gravenhorst, 1829) and noted that the specimens from Shikoku have no horn of head. Townes & Gupta (1962) reviewed the subspecies of this species and noted that the subspecies, Meg. monticola dentata Uchida, 1930, has an intraspecific variation, i.e. horn of frons sometimes absent. According to Townes & Gupta (1962), all Japanese specimens of Meg. monticola should be treated as Meg. monticola dentatus. Thus, I delete the distribution of Meg. monticola monticola from Japanese fauna. In this study, I newly describe two new species and redescribe Meg. monticola dentatus below.
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- Forster
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- Animalia
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- Arthropoda
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- Hymenoptera
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- Ichneumonidae
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- Megaplectes
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- Megaplectes Forster, 1869 sec. Watanabe, 2025
References
- Forster, A., 1869. Synopsis der Familien und Gattungen der Ichneumonen. Verhandlungen des Naturhistorischen Vereins der Preussischen Rheinlande und Westfalens, 25 (1868): 135-221.
- Gravenhorst, J. L. C., 1829. Ichneumonologia Europaea. Pars II. Vratislaviae, 989 pp.
- Schmiedeknecht, O., 1890. Die Gattungen und Arten der Cryptinen revidirt und tabellarisch zusammengestellt. Entomologische Nachrichten, 16 (6): 81-88.
- Thomson, C. G., 1873. XXI. Forsok till gruppering och beskrifning af Crypti. Opuscula Entomologica. Lund, V: 455-527.
- Schulz, W. A., 1906. Spolia Hymenopterologica. Paderborn (Junfermann), 356 pp.
- Uchida, T., 1930. Fuenfter Beitrag zur Ichneumoniden-Fauna Japans. Journal of the Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, 25: 299-347.
- Uchida, T., 1936 b. Zur Ichneumonidenfauna von Tosa (II.) Subfam. Cryptinae. Insecta matsumurana, 11: 1-20.
- Townes, H. & M. Townes, 1962. Ichneumon-flies of American north of Mexico: 3 Subfamily Gelinae, Tribe Mesostenini. United States National Museum Bulletin, 216 (3): 1-602.