Taxonomy of Megaxyela (Hymenoptera, Xyelidae)

Megaxyela comprises 13 species distributed in Canada, China, Japan, South Korea, eastern Russia, and eastern USA, four of which are described as new and one is removed from synonymy. A cladogram, based on COI sequences of seven species, is presented and interpreted in view of selected morphological characters.

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Additional Info

Field Value
Geographic coverage
Geographic description East Asia, North America
Bounding coordinates
North: 36.292
West: 96.716
East: None
South: None
Taxonomic coverage
Genus Megaxyela
Species Xyelidae
Other info
Last Updated April 20, 2026, 17:03 (UTC)
Created April 20, 2026, 13:38 (UTC)

Responsible parties

Creator and point of contact
Name Stephan M. Blank
Organization affiliations
SDEI - Systematics and Biogeography

Eberswalder Straße 90
15374 Müncheberg
Germany
ROR ID: https://ror.org/https://ror.org/04zdqq152
Organization email:sdei@senckenberg.de
Website:https://www.senckenberg.de/en/research/institutes-overview/sdei/sdei-abt-systematics-and-biogeography/

Associated publications

Publication
Link https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2017.348

Research data management planning

Types of data that will be / are / were created during the project Geographical data , Taxonomic data , Molecular Sequence Data
Estimated volume of created data Cannot estimate
Data will be stored at (long-term archived) http://www.boldsystems.org/

Link to this dataset:

https://dataportal.senckenberg.de/dataset/ecc9990e-a801-4bad-83ee-0ba20e78ad55