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Scolia wahlbergii

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Scolioidea; Family: Scoliidae; Subfamily: Scoliinae; Tribe: Scoliini; Genus: Scolia)

Scolia wahlbergii Saussure, 1859

Classification

Scolia_whalbergi_Picker&Griffiths

Photograph © Mike Picker & Charles Griffiths (University of Cape Town)

Cumberland Nature Reserve. Photograph © Alan Manson https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/70551618

Specimens in SAMC

Distribution

Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, 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.

Picker, M., Griffiths, C & Weaving, A. 2002. Field Guide to Insects of South Africa. Struik Publishers, Cape Town.

Credits

 Photographs of living specimens © Mike Picker & Charles Griffiths (University of Cape Town) (published in Struik's Field Guide to Insects of South Africa), or © Alan Manson.

Photographs of mounted specimens © Iziko Museums of South Africa.

Map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).

Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2024. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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