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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Bees, Ants, and Stinging Wasps » Ants, Stinging Wasps, and Hornets (Vespoidea) » Scoliid Wasps (Scoliidae)

Family Scoliidae - Scoliid Wasps

Classification · Other Common Names · Pronunciation · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Food · Life Cycle · See Also · Internet References · Works Cited
Scolia nobilitata? - Scolia nobilitata Big Wasp - Campsomeris plumipes Unknown wasp - Campsomeris plumipes Scoliid Wasp?? - Campsomeris ephippium Scolia nobilitata - male small wasp or bee - Scolia nobilitata - female Border scoliid - female Scoliid wasp, possibly Campsomeris tolteca male? - Campsomeris tolteca - male
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon (Aculeata - Bees, Ants, and Stinging Wasps)
Superfamily Vespoidea (Ants, Stinging Wasps, and Hornets)
Family Scoliidae (Scoliid Wasps)
Other Common Names
Flower Wasps, Mammoth Wasps, Scarab Hawks, Scarab Hunters
Pronunciation
sco-LEE-ih-dee
Explanation of Names
See Scolia
Numbers
~20 spp. in 5 genera in our area(1)(2) (Campsomeriella annulata and Micromeriella marginella modesta were introduced to control the Japanese beetle but did not become established)
Size
20-50 mm
Identification
Robust, hairy, medium-sized to large
wings with longitudinal wrinkles towards the apex
mesosternum and metasternum divided by a transverse suture
hind coxae well-separated
key to nearctic genera and species(2)
Range
in NA, most diverse in the south
Habitat
fields, meadows, lawns (searching for hosts)
Season
Summer
Food
Larvae are parasitoids of ground-dwelling scarab grubs, esp. Phyllophaga; adults take nectar
Life Cycle
female digs down to the host grub, stings it, and lays an egg on the paralyzed grub(3)
See Also
Male Mutillidae (wings not wrinkled)
Tiphiidae
Internet References
Works Cited
1.American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
By Ross H. Arnett
2.U. of Florida and Dep. of Agriculture Website
3.Borror and DeLong's Introduction to the Study of Insects
By Norman F. Johnson, Charles A. Triplehorn
Contributed by Cotinis on 16 February, 2004 - 12:32pm
Additional contributions by Hannah Nendick-Mason, Beatriz Moisset, Bbarnd, waspGeorge, v belov
Last updated 15 February, 2012 - 10:44am

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