Cedar Creek
Natural History Area
Insects of Cedar Creek
Order HYMENOPTERA
Family MEGASPILIDAE
(Megaspilid Wasps)
(Table of Species)
This is a fairly small group (61 NA spp) of tiny insects with a large stigma and curving submarginal vein. Most are parasitic on Diptera and Homoptera. Perhaps five species in the genera
Megaspilus
and
Dendrocerus
have been collected.
jhaar@lter.umn.edu
Last updated May, 2000
