36. Scolia (Discolia) inouyei Okamoto, 1924 re-instated

Scolia inouyei Okamoto, 1924: 205, ♀, Korea (type in Agricultural Experimental Station, Suigen, S. Korea?); Yamane, 1995: 43.

Scolia nobilis f. inouyei: Uchida, 1933: 250 .

Scolia nobilis inouyei: Betrem, 1941: 140; Osten, 2005: 39.

Distribution. China (Taiwan, Yunnan); Korea.

Notes. We re-instate Scolia (Discolia) inouyei Okamoto, 1924 as a valid species, after examining a specimen from Yunnan. This species is clearly different from S. nobilis; the legs are reddish, with wings pale as the spots of the tergites, the pronotum dorso-posteriorly (“scapula”) bright yellow laterally, the lateral carina extending over the propodeal spiracle (just reaching to the spiracle in S. nobilis); the median suture of the frons (“frontal fissure”) absent (distinct in S. nobilis); the antenna longer, with penultimate joints nearly as long as wide (antenna distinctly shorter, with penultimate joints wider than long in S. nobilis); and the upper part of the metapleuron with sparse punctures only medially (largely densely punctate in S. nobilis).