Family Scoliidae as parasitoids of (Insecta: Hymenoptera) beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera)

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.