New Records of Hairy Wasps (Hymenoptera: Scoliidae) from DIU, India

The family Scoliidae is a group of solitary fossorial aculeate wasps commonly known as hairy wasps. Adults are usually black, commonly marked with yellow, white or red. Their wings are usually dark with metallic reflections. Vestiture varies from entirely black or black mixed with white to entirely golden or reddish. Body length may vary from 5 mm to 35 mm (rarely up to 50 mm). Sexual dimorphism is distinct. They are world wide in distribution but predominantly found in tropical region and consist of about 560 species, 220 subspecies distributed among 43 genera, 28 subgenera in two subfamilies: Proscoliinae and Scoliinae (Osten, 2005). The larvae of scoliid wasps are ectoparasitic on the larvae of Coleoptera, usually Scarabaeoidea but rarely Curculionoidea.