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Liacos Guérin-Méneville
(Life:
Kingdom: Metazoa (animals);
Phylum: Arthropoda;
Class: Hexapoda; Order:
Hymenoptera; Superfamily:
Scolioidea; Family:
Scoliidae; Subfamily: Scoliinae; Tribe:
Scoliini)
Liacos Guérin-Méneville, 1838. Type
species: Scolia (Liacos)dimidiata Guérin-Méneville, 1838 by monotypy.
Tetrascolia Ashmead, 1903: 8. Type species: Campsomeris urvillii Lepeletier,
1845 (= Compsomeris urvillii Guérin, 1845; lapsus calami for Campsomeris
urvillii Lepeletier, 1845) by original designation. Synonymy by Betrem,
1928: 166 via synonymy of the type species Campsomeris urvillii with
Scolia
dimidiata Guérin-Méneville, 1830.
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Liacos conigra
Micha, 1927 (Madagascar) |
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Liacos nigrita
nigrita Fabricius, 1781 (Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo,
Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone) |
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Liacos nigrita
halima Kirby, 1889 (Angola, Eritrea, Kenya, Mozambique, South
Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe) |
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Liacos sanctithomae
Bradley, 1959 (Democratic Republic of Congo, Principal Islands,
Senegal) |
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Liacos semipullata
de Saussure, 1892 (Madagascar) |
Distribution |
Angola, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo,
Equatorial Guinea,
Eritrea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea,
Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sierra Leone,
South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe. |
Biology |
External parasitoids of beetle larvae (mostly Scarabaeidae)
that live in soil or decaying vegetable matter. |
References |
Betrem, J.G. & Bradley, J.C. 1964. Annotations on the Genera
Triscolia,
Megascolia and Scolia (Hymenoptera, Scoliidae) (second part). Zoologische Mededelingen
40: 89-96.
Bradley, J.C. 1959. The Scoliidae of Africa.
Annals of the Transvaal Museum 23: 331-362.
Brothers, D.J. &
Finnamore A.T. 1993. Superfamily Vespoidea (pp. 161-278).
In
GOULET, H. & HUBER,
J. (eds). Hymenoptera of the World: an identification guide to families.
Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, Canada, 668 pp.
Osten, T. 2005. Checkliste der Dolchwespen der
Welt (Insecta: Hymenoptera, Scoliidae). Teil 1: Proscoliinae und
Scoliinae: Campsomerini. Teil 2: Scoliinae: Scoliini. Teil 3: Literatur.
Bericht der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft Augsburg 62 (220–221):
1–62. |
Credits |
Photographs © Iziko Museums
of South Africa.
Map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums
of South Africa).
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