Megallicini, Brazidec & Vilhelmsen & Boudinot & Richter & Hammel & Perkovsky & Fan & Wang & Wu & Wang & Perrichot, 2024

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

3.2.2. Tribe † Megallicini trib. nov.

Type genus.

† Megallica Perrichot, 2009.

Diagnosis.

Head hypognathous; compound eye without setation, without posterior carina; subantennal groove without dorsal carina; mandible with three teeth; median sulcus on vertex present; occipital carina present, curving towards mandible. Median mesoscutal sulcus crenulate; parapsidal lines absent; axillae not connected at inner angles, separated by two triangular foveae; propodeum areolate-rugose. Fore wing hyaline; with C, Sc+R, A, cu-a, Rs+M, M, Rs and R1 tubular; pterostigma large; M not reaching apical margin; Rs only present as a stub between Rs+M and r-rs; Rs apically evenly arched towards stigma; costal, marginal and radial+first cubital cells closed. Metasoma elongate, fusiform, longer than mesosoma.

Genera and species included.

† Megallica parva Perrichot, 2009

Comments.

The tribe Megallicini trib. nov. is erected based on the results of the phylogenetic analyses, because Megallica is not retrieved within a clade with any other Megalyrinae genera.