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| | Larra wasps; mole cricket hunters |
 | | They are solitary wasps, have no communal nests to guard, and are not "aggressive." All of them are parasitoids, and all, so far as is known, attack only mole crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllotalpidae) but, to each Larra species, not all mole cricket species are acceptable hosts (Bohart and Menke 1978, Menke 1992). |
 | | Although Neocurtilla and Scapteriscus belong to the same family (Gryllotalpidae: mole crickets), they are only distantly related to one another. |
 | | It is important to realize that there are more than 80 species of mole crickets worldwide, that they have a long evolutionary history over at least tens of millions of years, and that the genus Scapteriscus evolved in South America. |
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