Study of the Megalyridae and Monomachidae Families (Insecta: Hymenoptera)

Abstract

Megalyridae wasps are thought to be idiobiont endoparasitoids of concealed insect larvae. Parasitoids of larvae of broaching beetles, families Bostrichidae, Buprestidae, Cerambycidae (Coleoptera), and Pemphredonidae (Hymenoptera). Little is known about the hosts of Monomachidae: The Australian species Monomachus antipodalis Westwood, 1874 acts as an egg-larval or egg-pupal parasitoid of Boreoides spp. (Diptera: Stratiomyidae, Chiromyzinae). The aim of this article is to study the characteristics of bioecology and taxonomy of the Megalyridae and Monomachidae Families (Insecta: Hymenoptera). The review was carried out in Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil from November 2022 to December 2022. Study or work uses the reference of bibliographic research, understood as the act of asking and seeking information on certain subjects such as Hymenoptera Parasitica through a survey carried out in national and foreign magazines classified by the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES), with the aim of detecting what there is consensus or controversy in the state of the art of literature in the libraries of the University of Brasília and the University of São Paulo on websites at (LILACS) and (SciELO) and in book scientific chapters, national and international scientific articles. It is an important work, both for hymenopterologists dedicated to studying parasitoids and for other entomologists interested in the biological control of insect pests.