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Scolebythidae

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Scolebythidae
Temporal range: Barremian–Recent
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Infraorder: Aculeata
Superfamily: Chrysidoidea
Family: Scolebythidae
Evans 1963
Genera

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The Scolebythidae are a small family of aculeate wasps in the superfamily Chrysidoidea. These chrysidoid wasps are found in Africa, Australia, the Neotropics, north China, Thailand and Fiji. They are parasites on larvae of Cerambycidae and Ptinidae.[1]

Overview

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Scolebythidae wasps are gregarious ectoparasitoids of wood-boring beetle larvae. Females dig tunnels through the frass of wood-boring beetles using their mandibles. After reaching the host chamber of the beetle larva, frass is pulled into the chamber before stinging the larva. The female wasp feeds on the hemolymph after biting the integument. This behaviour is probably necessary for egg laying.[2]

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References

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  1. ^ Zhang, Qi; Rasnitsyn, Alexandr P.; Wang, Bo; Zhang, Haichun (December 2018). "Hymenoptera (wasps, bees and ants) in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber: A review of the fauna". Proceedings of the Geologists' Association. 129 (6): 736–747. doi:10.1016/j.pgeola.2018.06.004. S2CID 134358795.
  2. ^ Engel MS, Grimaldi DA (2006). "The First Cretaceous Sclerogibbid Wasp (Hymenoptera: Sclerogibbidae)". American Museum Novitates (3515): 1–7. doi:10.1206/0003-0082(2006)3515[1:TFCSWH]2.0.CO;2. hdl:2246/5792. S2CID 59503176.
  3. ^ Engel, Michael S. (2005). "The Wasp Genus Clystopsenella in Belize (Hymenoptera: Scolebythidae)". Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society. 78 (2): 186–188. ISSN 0022-8567.