Megaplectes Förster, 1869

Watanabe, Kyohei, 2025, Taxonomic Study of Japanese Cryptinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae), with Descriptions of 32 New Species, Bulletin of the Kanagawa Prefectural Museum (Natural Science) 54, pp. 71-204 : 137

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16963208
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scientific name	Megaplectes Förster, 1869
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Genus Megaplectes Förster, 1869 View in CoL View at ENA

Megaplectes Förster, 1869: 186 View in CoL . Type species: Ichneumon monticola Gravenhorst, 1829 . Included by Schmiedeknecht (1890).

Iocryptus Thomson, 1873: 472 . Phygadeuon regius Taschenberg, 1865 View in CoL (= 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.