| Liacos | |
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| Liacos erythrosoma | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Scoliidae |
| Tribe: | Scoliini |
| Genus: | Liacos Guérin-Méneville, 1838 |
Liacos is a genus of Scoliid wasp found throughout Africa, Asia, and Australia.[1]
Description
As part of the tribe Scoliini, the forewings of Liacos wasps have only a single complete recurrent wing vein,[2] though a partial second recurrent vein coalesces with it before reaching the cubital vein.[3] Unlike other Scoliini, the forewing has a third discoidal cell.[1][3]
Species
There are 10 species of Liacos:[4]
- Liacos analis (Fabricius, 1804)
- Liacos analis analis (Fabricius, 1804)
- Liacos analis obiana Micha, 1927
- Liacos analis palawana Micha, 1927
- Liacos analis pseudoerythrosoma Micha, 1927
- Liacos analis semirufa Micha, 1927
- Liacos conigra Micha, 1927
- Liacos erythrosoma (Burmeister, 1854)
- Liacos erythrosoma erythrosoma (Burmeister, 1854)
- Liacos erythrosoma aurantiatica Micha, 1927
- Liacos erythrosoma chosensis Uchida, 1933
- Liacos erythrosoma cruszi Krombein, 1978[5]
- Liacos erythrosoma formosana Micha, 1927
- Liacos erythrosoma fulvopicta Cameron, 1892
- Liacos erythrosoma hainana Micha, 1927
- Liacos erythrosoma pyrrhopyga Micha, 1927
- Liacos erythrosoma sikkimensis Micha, 1927
- Liacos fulgidipennis (Smith, 1859)
- Liacos melanogaster Tsuneki, 1982[6]
- Liacos nigrita (Fabricius, 1781)
- Liacos nigrita nigrita (Fabricius, 1781)
- Liacos nigrita halima (Kirby, 1889)
- Liacos sanctithomae Bradley, 1959
- Liacos semipullata Bradley, 1959
- Liacos semperi Betrem, 1928
- Liacos zinuneri Micha, 1927
References
- Bingham, C.T.; Blanford, W.T.; Marshall, Guy Anstruther Knox; Morley, Claude; Shipley, A.E. (1897). The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Taylor and Francis. p. 101. Retrieved 2 November 2025.
- Ashmead, William H. (1868). "Classification of the Fossorial, Predaceous, and Parasitic Wasps, or the Superfamily Vespoidea". The Canadian Entomologist. 35: 7–8. Retrieved 2 November 2025.
- Gupta, S.K.; Jonathan, J.K. (2003). Fauna of India and the Adjacent Countries, Hymenoptera: Scoliidae. Kolkata, India: Zoological Survey of India. pp. 151–152. ISBN 81-8171-009-6.
- Osten, T. (2005). "Checkliste der Dolchwespen der Welt (Insecta: Hymenoptera, Scoliidae). Teil 1: Proscoliinae und Scoliinae: Campsomerini. Teil 2: Scoliinae: Scoliini. Teil 3: Literatur" [Checklist of the Scoliidae of the World. Part 1: Proscoliinae and Scoliinae: Campsomerini. Part 2: Scoliinae: Scoliini. Part 3: Literature] (PDF). Bericht der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft Augsburg (in German). 62 (220–221): 1–62. Retrieved 2014-06-24.
- Krombein, Karl V. (1978). Biosystematic Studies of Ceylonese Wasps, II: A Monograph of the Scoliidae (Hymenoptera: Scolioidea). City of Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press. pp. 1–55.
- Kawano, Taisuke; Matsumoto, Neo; Yamane, Seiki (2021). "Rediscovery of Liacos melanogaster Tsuneki, a scoliid wasp endemic to Kagoshima, Japan" (PDF). Nature of Kagoshima (in Japanese). 47: 399–401. Retrieved 2026-05-16.