Megascolia is a genus of large solitary wasps from the family Scoliidae, the species classified under Megascolia include some of the world's largest wasps.[2]
| Megascolia | |
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| Megascolia procer female | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Scoliidae |
| Tribe: | Scoliini |
| Genus: | Megascolia Betrem, 1928 |
| Type species | |
| Scolia procer | |
| Species | |
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3 species, see text | |
Biology
editThey are parasitoids of large Scarabeid beetles such as the European rhinoceros beetle Oryctes nasicornis and Atlas beetle Chalcosoma atlas.[2]
Taxonomy and phylogeny
editMegascolia was originally described in 1927 by Betrem as a subgenus of Triscolia. Betrem and Bradley elevated both subgenera to genus status in 1964, retaining Megascolia for Old World species and Triscolia for New World species. They also divided Megascolia into two subgenera: Megascolia (Megascolia) and Megascolia (Regiscolia). In 2025, Castagnet and Cabon split Regiscolia into a separate genus, while describing a third genus, Gigascolia, for remaining species.[2]
Species
editThe following 3 species are classified in the genus Megascolia'':[3][4][2]
- Megascolia procer (Illiger, 1802)
- Megascolia scutellaris (Gribodo, 1893)
- Megascolia velutina (Saussure, 1859)
References
edit- ↑ Betrem, Johan George; Bradley, James Chester (1964). "Annotations on the genera Triscolia, Megascolia and Scolia (Hymenoptera, Scoliidae)". Zoologische Mededelingen. 39 (43): 433–444.
- 1 2 3 4 Castagnet, Jean-Baptiste; Cabon, Flavien (2025). "Review of the genus Megascolia Betrem, 1928 (Hymenoptera, Scoliidae)". Zootaxa. 5700 (1): 1–127. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5700.1.1.
- ↑ "Megascolia Betrem, 1928". BioLib. Retrieved 20 May 2017.
- ↑ "Taxonomy for Megascolia". insectoid.info. Archived from the original on 21 September 2017. Retrieved 20 May 2017.
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