Megaxyela is a genus of sawflies in the family Xyelidae. There are about 13 described species in Megaxyela, found in the eastern Nearctic and in the southeastern part of East Asia. Two fossil species have been discovered, in Colorado and Shandong, China.
Megaxyela are external feeders of trees in the walnut family, Juglandaceae.
Species These 13 species belong to the genus Megaxyela:
Megaxyela bicoloripes (Rohwer, 1924) Megaxyela euchroma Blank, Shinohara & Wei, 2017 Megaxyela fulvago Blank, Shinohara & Wei, 2017 Megaxyela gigantea Mocsáry, 1909 Megaxyela inversa Blank & D.R. Smith, 2017 Megaxyela langstoni Ross, 1936, 2017 Megaxyela major (Cresson, 1880) Megaxyela parki Shinohara, 1992 Megaxyela pulchra Blank, Shinohara & Sundukov, 2017 Megaxyela togashii Shinohara, 1992 Megaxyela tricolor (Norton, 1862) † Megaxyela petrefacta Brues, 1908 † Megaxyela yaoshanica Zhang, 1989
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