European Journal of Taxonomy 348: 1–46 ISSN 2118-9773 https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2017.348 www.europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu 2017 · Blank S.M. et al. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. Research article urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:56D8BC29-3C29-4EE8-8633-B997784CA00A Big and beautiful: the Megaxyela species (Hymenoptera, Xyelidae) of East Asia and North America Stephan M. BLANK 1,*, Katja KRAMP 2, David R. SMITH 3, Yuri N. SUNDUKOV 4, Meicai WEI 5 & Akihiko SHINOHARA 6 1,2 Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches Institut, Eberswalder Str. 90, 15374 Müncheberg, Germany. 3 Systematic Entomology Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, c/o National Museum of Natural History, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 168, Washington, DC 20013-7012, USA. 4 State Nature Reserve “Kurilskiy”, Zarechnaya str. 5, Yuzhno-Kurilsk, Sakhalinskaya oblast, 694500 Russia. 5 Key Laboratory of Cultivation and Protection for Non-Wood Forest Trees (Central South University of Forestry and Technology), Ministry of Education, Changsha 410004, China. 6 Department of Zoology, National Museum of Nature and Science, 4-1-1 Amakubo, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-0005 Japan. * Corresponding author:
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