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The Asian giant hornet (Vespa mandarinia) or northern giant hornet, [2] [3] including the color form referred to as the Japanese giant hornet, [4] [5] is the world's largest hornet. It is native to temperate and tropical East Asia , South Asia , Mainland Southeast Asia , and parts of the Russian Far East .
The heaviest wasp (and heaviest hymenopteran) is probably the giant scoliid wasp Megascolia procer, it can reach a body length of over 7.7 cm (3.0 in) and have a wingspan of 11.6 cm (4.6 in). The largest known social wasps are the queens of the Asian giant hornet (Vespa mandarinia). They can have a body length exceeding 6 cm (2.4 in) and a 9.3 ...
The mammoth wasp is found in Mediterranean type habitats such as oak forests, maquis and garrigue.It can only occur where its prey, the European rhinoceros beetle Oryctes nasicornis, is found too and in Russia it has been noted that it is commonest around human habitation where manure piles, sawmills and compost heaps provide habitat for its prey.
As with other wasps, death due to a single sting on the skin only occurs when an allergy is present, and serious outcomes with Asian giant hornet stings in China and Japan are only documented with many stings or anaphylactic shock due to an existing allergy. [12] People who are allergic to wasp venom may also be allergic to hornet stings.
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Charles W. Holliday and Joseph R. Coelho devised a new key in 2004 to identify the Sphecius species, examining 4,451 wasps among the five New World species, and noting that 98% of the female S. convallis wasps examined had yellow markings on gastral tergites one to four (or fewer) and S. grandis had 98% yellow markings from tergites one to five ...