Megastygarctides

Megastygarctides is a genus of tardigrades, the only one in the subfamily Megastygarctidinae in the family Stygarctidae. The genus was first described and named by McKirdy, Schmidt & McGinty-Bayly in 1976. It was placed in the new subfamily Megastygarctidinae in 1998 by Bello and de Zio Grimaldi.

Species
The genus includes the following species:
 * Megastygarctides christinae Hansen & Kristensen, 2006
 * Megastygarctides gerdae Hansen & Kristensen, 2006
 * Megastygarctides isounguis Renaud-Mornant, 1981
 * Megastygarctides orbiculatus McKirdy, Schmidt & McGinty-Bayly, 1976
 * Megastygarctides setoloso Morgan & O'Reilly, 1989
 * Megastygarctides sezginii Ürkmez, Ostrowska, Roszkowska, Gawlak, Zawierucha, Kristensen & Kaczmarek, 2017