Megascolia velutina ducalis PELANG (Female)
£9.95
Giant Megascolia wasp
Quality: A1- (good)
Format: Unmounted/Papered requires relaxing and setting
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Description
Description
Taxonomy Identification: Family Hymenoptera. Megascolia are large solitary wasps from the family Scoliidae. First identified by Saussure in 1859.
Colour: Wings are coloured a blue-violet black. The head, thorax and legs are black. Females have a single yellow-orange patch on the head, absent in the males.
Size: Body length Male: 30-35mm, wingspan 55-65mm – Female body length: 35-45mm, wingspan 55-75mm.
Comments & Applications: These amazing parasitic wasps, using their sting to paralyse their prey before dragging it to a brood nest as living food; a single egg is laid on the prey, hatching to a larva which eats the still-living prey. Megascolia prey on Rhino beetle larvae.
Always a favourite with collectors and sought after by the art and craft industry, photography, framing, interior design, film, entertainment and educational purposes
Format: Supplied Unmounted, papered, requires relaxing and setting. Wings spread on card backing.
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