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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Genus Triscolia

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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon (Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps)
Superfamily Scolioidea
Family Scoliidae (Scoliid Wasps)
Tribe Scoliini
Genus Triscolia
Explanation of Names
Triscolia de Saussure 1863
Numbers
a single species in our area, 2 total
Range
T. ardens TX to so. CA, T. badia Baja California, Mexico
Food
Larvae feed on beetle larvae