Liu Zhen, Achterberg Cornelis Van, He Jun-Hua, Chen Xue-Xin, Chen Hua-Yan
College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Hunan University of Arts and Science, Changde 415000, China Hunan University of Arts and Science Changde China.
State Key Lab of Rice Biology, Ministry of Agriculture Key Lab of Molecular Biology of Crop Pathogens and Insects, Institute of Insect Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China Zhejiang University Hangzhou China.
Zookeys. 2021 Mar 22;1025:139-175. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1025.61385. eCollection 2021.
The Scoliidae occur predominantly in tropical and subtropical regions and are ectoparasitoids of Scarabaeoidea larvae (especially of Melolonthinae) which are immobilised, parasitised by the female wasp in their terrestrial larval gallery and buried deeper in a special cell by the female wasp. Herein, we provided, for the first time, illustrated keys to 11 genera and 52 species of Scoliidae from China, based on specimens in the Naturalis Biodiversity Center (RMNH, Leiden) and additional specimens from the Chinese Academy of Insect Science (Beijing), Zhejiang University (ZJUH, Hangzhou) and Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU, Guangzhou) and it is a first attempt to make keys available for all the Scoliidae species in China.
土蜂科主要分布在热带和亚热带地区,是金龟总科幼虫(尤其是鳃金龟科)的体外寄生蜂。雌性土蜂会使这些幼虫麻痹,在它们位于地面的幼虫通道中将其寄生,然后把它们埋入一个特殊的洞穴中更深的位置。在此,我们首次基于荷兰国家自然生物多样性中心(RMNH,莱顿)的标本以及来自中国昆虫科学研究院(北京)、浙江大学(ZJUH,杭州)和中山大学(SYSU,广州)的其他标本,提供了中国土蜂科11个属和52个物种的图解检索表,这是为中国所有土蜂科物种编制检索表的首次尝试。