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1951. Priesner, Bull. inst. Fouad I du Desert, vol. 1, p. 121 



Type: Megacolus desertorum Priesner, 1951, by monotypx 

 and original designation. 

 (Megalospilus Schulz, emendation) = Megaspilus Westwood 



1906. Schulz, Spolia hymenopterologica, p. 152. 

 Megaplastopria Ashmead 



1903. Ashmead, Journ. New York Ent. Soc, vol. 11, p. 31. 



Type : Megaplastopria brasiliensis Ashmead, 1903, by moncfj 

 typy and original designation. 

 Megaspilidea Ashmead 



1888. Ashmead, Can. Ent., vol. 20, pp. 48, 49. 



Type : Megaspilidea minuta Ashmead, 1888, by monotypy. } 



Considered synonym of Ceraphron Jurine. '^ 



Megaspilodes Ashmead I* 



1888 (March). Ashmead, Can. Ent, vol. 20, p. 48. Tv/d 

 names, one of them a nomen nudum. 



Type: Ceraphron armatus Say, 1836, by monotypy. Alsa; 

 designated by Muesebeck and Walkley, 1951, m' 

 Muesebeck et al., U. S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Monogr.i 

 No. 2, p. 671, who at that time thought both originally: 

 included names to be valid. Ashmead intended toi 

 establish Megaspilodes as a monotypic genus witfi 

 ftiscipennis Ashmead as type but unfortunately the 

 paper in which he first described the genus was not 

 published until June, 1888 (Kans. State Agr. Collegeij 

 Bull. No. 3, App. p. ii). 



Considered synonym of Megaspilus WestM^ood. 

 Megaspilus Westwood (= Megalospilus Schulz, emendation) 



1829. Westwood, in Stephens, The nomenclature of British! ' 

 insects . . . , p. 37. Sixteen names, thirteen of them 

 nomina nuda. 



Type: Ceraphron dux Curtis, 1829. Designated by West- 

 wood, 1839, An introduction to the modern classifi- 

 cation of insects, vol. 2, generic synopsis p. 77. 

 Ce7'aphron ahdominoMs Boheman, 1832, designated 

 by Ashmead, 1893, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 45, p. 112, 

 was not originally included. 

 Merriwa Dodd 



1920. Dodd, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 1919, p. 332. 



Type: Merriiva quadridentata Dodd, 1920, by monotypy and 

 original designation. 



