Megascolia
| Megascolia | |
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| Megascolia bidens | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Clade: | Euarthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Scoliidae |
| Tribe: | Scoliini |
| Genus: |
Megascolia Betrem, 1928 |
| Type species | |
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Megascolia procer (Illiger, 1908) |
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| Species | |
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Megascolia is a genus of large solitary wasps from the family Scoliidae, the species classified under Megascolia include some of the world's largest wasps. They are parasitoids of large Sacarabeid beetles such as the European rhinoceros beetle Oryctes nasicornis and Atlas beetle Chalcosoma atlas.
The following species are classified in the genus Megascolia which is further divided into two subgenera, Megascolia and Regiscolia:
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