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Megischus is a genus of crown wasp. It was circumscribed by Gaspard Auguste Brullé in 1846. The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution, and over eighty species are recognized.

It is the type genus of the tribe Megischini, which was circumscribed by Michael S. Engel and David A. Grimaldi in 2004. This tribe is in the subfamily Stephaninae in the family Stephanidae; the other genera in this tribe are Hemistephanus and Pseudomegischus.

Taxonomic history
The French entomologist Gaspard Auguste Brullé first named the genus Megischus in 1846.

In 1914, Viereck designated Megischus annulator, described by Brullé, as the type species of Megischus.

The French entomologist Frédéric Jules Sichel circumscribed the genus Bothriocerus in 1861. He initially included two species, described by him in the same work: B. europaeus and B. americanus. In 1862, Sichel said that Bothriocerus was a junior synonym of Megischus. Henry L. Viereck designated Bothriocerus europaeus to be the type species of Bothriocerus.

Viereck considered Megischus, Prionopus, and ? to be junior synonyms of the genus Stephanus.

Henry Townes considered the genus F, named by Enderlein in 1906, to be a junior synonym of Megischus and Bothriocerus.

e (Aguiar 2004, 2006; van Achterberg and Yang 2004; van Achterberg and Quicke 2006)

Species
Megischus anomalipes (Foerster, 1855)

Distribution
Madagascar.

Megischus Brullé is a cosmopolitan genus (Aguiar 2004; Hong et al. 2011). Aguiar and Johnson (2003) provided data on geographical distribution, biology and a key to the North American species of Megischus, including the Antilles. Aguiar (2006c) subsequently also revised the Mexican species. Aguiar (2006c) revised the Mexican species, describing new ones and offering a key