(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Chalcidoidea; Family: Torymidae; Subfamily: Megastigminae)
Megastigmus Dalman 1820. Type species: Pteromalus bipunctatum Swederus 1795.
Megastigmus sp.
Australia, New Zealand
Host fig: Ficus rubiginosa
Early J.W. 2000. Fig wasps (Hymenoptera: Agaonidae and Torymidae) in New Zealand. New Zealand Entomologist 23, 27-32.
Next genus: Physothorax
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