Scolia vintschgaui Dalla Torre, 1893

Ramírez-Guillén, Luis Damián, Falcon-Brindis, Armando & Gómez, Benigno, 2022, The Scoliidae wasps (Hymenoptera: Scolioidea) of Mexico: taxonomy and biogeography, Zootaxa 5214 (1), pp. 47-88 : 78-80

Scolia vintschgaui Dalla Torre, 1893

Female. Body length 12.4 mm (range 12 mm – 12.7 mm); forewing length 9.7 mm; Structure. Lateral margins of clypeus punctured; interantennal area; frons, vertex and gena with densely and coarsely punctured; mesosoma densely and coarsely punctured; posterior face of propodeum scattered and coarsely punctate; hind tibial spurs acute. Color. Body black with whitish setae; posterior margin of the eye with a yellow band; pronotum with yellow bands on each side; metanotum with yellow spot; T3–T5 with yellow band; wings fuscous hyaline, more foscous in the anterior margin of the forewings ( Fig. 36 ).

Male. Body length 14.7 mm (range 14.4 mm – 15.1 mm); forewing length 11.2 mm; Structure. Lateral margins of clypeus punctured; frons scattered punctate; interantennal area, frons, vertex and gena striate; mesosoma densely and coarsely punctured; posterior face of propodeum scattered and coarsely punctate. Genitalia ( Fig. 43G ). Parameres converging towards the apex; ventral face polished; volsellae with long sparse setae, apice with long dense setae. Color. Resembling females also, anterior margin of the eye with a yellow band ( Fig. 37 ).

Distribution. NA and NT. Mexico: Baja California Sur and Guerrero ( Map 6 ).

Figures

MAP 6. Distribution of Scolia dubia haematodes, Scolia nobilitata nobilitata, Scolia nobilitata trincincta, Scolia rufiventris and Scolia vintschgaui.

FIGURE 36. Female Scolia vintschgaui. Scale bar = 2 mm.

FIGURE 37. Male Scolia vintschgaui. Scale bar = 2 mm.

FIGURE 43. Genitalia of Scoliini. A) Scolia dubia haematodes; B) S. fuscipennis; C) S. guttata guttata; D) S. mexicana; E) S. nobilitata tricincta; F) S. rufiventris; G) S. vintschgaui; H) Triscolia ardens; I) T. badia.