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Kingdom  Animalia Order  Hymenoptera Superfamily  Apoidea Scientific name  Megalara Garuda Rank  Species		Phylum  Arthropoda Suborder  Apocrita Family  Crabronidae Higher classification  Megalara
Similar  Insect, Crabronidae, Hymenopterans, Synoeca, Wattled smoky ho

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Megalara garuda, colloquially referred to as the "king of wasps", is a large wasp and only species in the genus Megalara, family Crabronidae, tribe Larrini. It is only known from the Mekongga Mountains in the southeastern part of the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. It was described in 2012 by Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology and professor of entomology at the University of California, Davis, and Michael Ohl, curator and head of entomology at the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin. Rosichon Ubaidillah from the Indonesian Institute of Sciences also contributed the discovery.

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