Bob McCall

Joined: Jul 13, 2019 Last Active: Mar 27, 2024 iNaturalist Monthly Supporter since August 2020

I have learned a lot by identification, still learning. if you have questions or corrections please let me know. thanks.

some helpful sources of information

university of Florida info on scoliid wasps http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/misc/wasps/scoliid_wasps.htm

scoliid wasp identification (sw us)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3671453?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents

Sri Lanka:
https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/5629/SCtZ-0283-Hi_res.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y.

India
http://faunaofindia.nic.in/PDFVolumes/fi/039/index.pdf
http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRAO06056.pdf
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303458878_New_distributional_records_of_scoliid_wasps_Insecta_Hymenoptera_Scoliidae_from_India/link/574418b708ae9f741b3a2643/download

Korea
https://www.koreascience.or.kr/article/JAKO200912651520467.pdf

Japan
the key is in Japanese
https://terayama.jimdofree.com/app/download/4152070967/%E3%83%84%E3%83%81%E3%83%90%E3%83%81%E7%A7%91%E6%A4%9C%E7%B4%A2%E8%A1%A8.PDF.pdf?t=1312376690

photos from key (see key above)
https://terayama.jimdofree.com/app/download/4632090767/%E3%83%84%E3%83%81%E3%83%90%E3%83%81%E7%A7%91%E3%82%AB%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BC%E7%94%BB%E5%83%8F.PDF.pdf?t=1315126046

Uchida's 1934 revision (in German)
https://eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/2115/12690/1/32%286%29_p229-262.pdf

Taiwan
http://twinsecttype.nmns.edu.tw/family/?id=396C320C78BC5EEBC4F9E478F3530643
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/275435523_On_some_Taiwanese_and_Ryukyu_Scoliinae_Hymenoptera_Scoliidae

China
https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/61385/

Africa
https://www.waspweb.org/Vespoidea/Scoliidae/Classification/index.htm

Bugguide, info on USA scoliids: https://bugguide.net/node/view/91

myzinum: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/288606203_Taxonomic_Purgatory_Sorting_Out_The_Wasp_Genus_Myzinum_Latreille_In_North_America_Hymenoptera_Tiphiidae_Myzininae

Discover Life https://www.discoverlife.org/mp/20q?search=Vespoidea&flags=col2:subgenus:

Vespid Keys (Dr Buck) http://cjai.biologicalsurvey.ca/bmc_05/keys.html

and the many helpful contributors on this website, thank you

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