Meggoleus Townes, 1971

Alvarado, Mabel, 2012, Discovery of the genus Meggoleus Townes, 1971 (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Tersilochinae) in Peru, with the description of two new species, ZooKeys 163, pp. 83-90 : 84

Genus Meggoleus Townes, 1971

Remarks.

The genus is characterized by the labium prolonged into a tongue that is about 0.33 as long as the height of head; antenna with 15 flagellomeres; foveate groove on mesopleuron almost straight, inclined 45° from horizontal; propodeum moderately long with a narrow median longitudinal carina or basal keel between the base of the propodeum and transverse carina; fore wing vein 2m-cu postfurcal, pretarsal claws long, not pectinate; thyridial depression much longer than wide. The Afrotropical species, Meggoleus townesi , differs from the Neotropical species in that the epicnemial carina reaches the anterior margin of the mesopleuron near its midlength (in Neotropical species the epicnemial carina reaches dorsally almost to the subtegular ridge) and the first tergite lacks a glymma in Meggoleus townesi but is present in all known Neotropical species. However, the most striking feature of Meggoleus is the exceptionally large ( Townes 1971; Khalaim 2007) and rounded propodeal spiracle a character not known among other ichneumonids.