Database and Catalog of the World Species

in cooperation with Luciana Musetti
The classification adopted below is based on the results from my cladistic analysis of the Stephanidae. The major difference in relation to the literature is that the genera Neostephanus Kieffer and Diastephanus Enderlein are treated here as junior synonyms of Foenatopus Smith.

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Number of species for Stephanidae
Literature GeneraNumber of Described Species
(database access)
Diastephanus . (=Foenatopus) (50)
Electrostephanus . (Extinct) 4
Foenatopus 143
Hemistephanus 21
Madegafoenus . (=Foenatopus)(3)
Megischus 72
Neostephanus . (=Foenatopus) (14)
Parastephanellus 51
Protostephanus . (Extinct) 1
Schlettererius 2
Stephanus 1
TOTAL (valid spp. only) 296

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This page last updated: February 14, 2000.

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