#3629 · 🐝 bees, wasps & ants
Geelstreepdolkwesp
Scolia hirta
🐝 Bees, wasps & ants 📍 in Europe, not in NL
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what is it?
Scolia hirta is a species of wasp belonging to the family Scoliidae subfamily Scoliinae.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 14,001 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Franz von Paula Schrank in 1781 (245 years ago).
fact sheet
- Nederlands
- Geelstreepdolkwesp
- scientific name
- Scolia hirta
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Hymenoptera
- family
- Scoliidae
- in NL
- native
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 10,905
- sightings worldwide
- 14,001
- GBIF records in NL
- 3
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1781 by Franz von Paula Schrank
relatives· Scoliidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 131031, Wikidata Q839330, GBIF 4505864, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.