A quadriocellar scoliid wasp (Hymenoptera, Scoliidae) from Mallorca, with a brief account of supernumerary ocelli in insects
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2015-09-11Author
Lohrmann, Volker
Engel, Michael S.
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Pensoft
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Article
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Scholarly/refereed, publisher version
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© 2015 Volker Lohrmann, Michael S. Engel.
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A remarkable teratological female of Megascolia (Regiscolia) maculata flavifrons (Fabricius, 1775) (Scoliidae: Scoliinae: Scoliini) with a supernumerary median ocellus is described and illustrated. While supernumerary ocelli have been reported before from Diptera, Orthoptera, and Hymenoptera, this is the first record of such a malformation from a scoliid wasp. Four other teratological scoliid wasps have been reported in the literature but all were gynandromorphs. A brief summary of known records of supernumerary ocelli among insects is provided.
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Lohrmann V, Engel MS (2015) A quadriocellar scoliid wasp (Hymenoptera, Scoliidae) from Mallorca, with a brief account of supernumerary ocelli in insects. Zoosystematics and Evolution 91(2): 191-197. doi: 10.3897/zse.91.5463
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