Family Scoliidae as parasitoids of (Insecta: Hymenoptera) beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera)
Instituto Federal Goiano, Biological Science, Parasitology, Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil.
Review
Open Access Research Journal of Science and Technology, 2023, 07(01), 001-016.
Article DOI: 10.53022/oarjst.2023.7.1.0087
Publication history:
Received on 15 November 2022; revised on 26 December 2022; accepted on 28 December 2022
Abstract:
Scoliidae waxes are solitary parasitoids from scarab beetle larvae. Female Scoliidae throws themselves into the ground in search of these larvae and then paralyze them with a string. Before laying the egg, they sometimes dig up the chamber and move the paralyzed beetle larva into it. Scoliidae wasps act as important biocontrol agents because many of the beetles they parasitize are pests, including the Japanese beetle. Male Scoliidae guards the territory, ready to mate with females emerging from the ground. Adult wasps can be flower pollinators of some plants and can find it on many flowers in late summer. The purpose of this paper is to describe the Family Scoliidae as parasitoids of (Insecta: Hymenoptera) beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera). For this, a bibliographic survey of Scoliidae was carried out oufromin the years 1971 to 2021. Only complete articles published in scientific journals and expanded abstracts presented at national and international scientific events were considered. Data were also obtained from Plataforma: Academia.edu, Frontiers, Qeios, Pubmed, Biological Abstract, Publons, Dialnet, World, Wide Science, Springer, RefSeek, Microsoft Academic, Science and ERIC.
Keywords:
Biocontrol; Scarabaeidae; Larvae; Wasp; Host
Full text article in PDF:
Copyright information:
Copyright © 2023 Author(s) retain the copyright of this article. This article is published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Liscense 4.0