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Scolebythidae
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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.
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It sits within the topics Apocrita families and Chrysidoidea.
Its subject is documented across 9 Wikipedia language editions.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 11
- Family
- Scolebythidae
- Collections
- KU, SAM, USNM
- Recorded in
- Peru, South Africa, Tanzania
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- Chrysidoidea
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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.
==Overview== 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.
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