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scoliid wasp

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Also known as: Scoliidae

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annotated classification

In Hymenoptera: Annotated classification
Family Scoliidae (scoliid wasps) Large, hairy, black wasps often with a yellow band or bands on abdomen; parasites of scarab-beetle larvae. Superfamily Tiphioidea Hairy wasps with a well-developed sting; females of some species are wingless. Family Tiphiidae (tiphiid wasps)
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wasps

In wasp
…the tiphiid wasps (family Tiphiidae), scoliid wasps (family Scoliidae), and velvet ants (family Mutillidae) in the superfamily Vespoidea. Cuckoo wasps are mostly brilliant metallic-green or -blue in color and often have intricate sculpturing on the exoskeleton. They lay their eggs in the nests of solitary bees or wasps. The larvae…
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