A quadriocellar scoliid wasp (Hymenoptera, Scoliidae) from Mallorca, with a brief account of supernumerary ocelli in insects

By

Lohrmann, Volker
Engel, Michael S.

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2015

Original Publication

Zoosystematics and evolution

Volume

91

Series / Issue

Issue: 2

Pages

191--197

Subjects

aberration , binary anterior ocelli , Malformation , Median ocellus , Morphology , para-median ocelli , Teratology , twin ocellus

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia Pensoft

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zse.91.5463

 

Abstract

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.