Colpa alcione Banks, 1917

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 : 54-55

Colpa alcione Banks, 1917

Female. Body length 18.1 mm; forewing length 12.4 mm; Structure. Clypeus thoroughly striate; interantennal area forming an elevated plate with sparse coarse punctures, surface striate and dull, upper and lateral margins with crested ridges; punctures on frons coarse and sparse; vertex and gena sparsely punctuate; coarse punctures surrounding mid ocellus; pronotum coarsely and closely punctured; mesoscutum, scutellum, and metanotum with sparse punctures; dorsal area of propodeum coarsely punctured, posterior face of propodeum impunctate; hind tibial spurs gently spatulate; pygidium coarsely punctate. Color. Setae golden; integument black on head (vertex, gena, antennal flagellomeres), mesosoma and dorsal area of metasoma; mandibles, clypeus, interantennal plate, scape, legs, and ventral metasoma ferruginous; yellow spots on dorsal area of propodeum; yellow spots on each side of S3; T1–T4 with wide yellow spots on each side; wings yellowish hyaline, moderately fuscous brown towards the apex ( Fig. 3 ).

Male. Body length 12.3 mm; forewing length 8.4 mm; Structure. Clypeus punctate; interantennal area densely punctate; lower area of frons sparsely punctured; vertex and gena sparsely punctured; pronotum, mesoscutum, scutellum, metanotum, and propodeum with shallow and sparsely punctate. Genitalia ( Fig. 42A ). Parameres elongated, more or less straight, ventral face polished with some sparse setae; volsellae small, with long sparse setae. Color. Setae white; integument black; legs reddish; clypeus completely yellow; yellow maculations on frontal and posterior margin of eyes, pronotum, scutellum, metanotum, propodeum (vertical bands on central and lateral areas), legs (apex of femora and dorsal surface of tibiae); yellow spots on T1–T6 and S2–S6; wings light brown. ( Fig. 4 ).

Distribution. NA. Mexico: Baja California ( Map 2 ). United States of America (Bradley 1828a; Hurd 1952; MacKay 1987).

Figures

MAP 2. Distribution of Colpa alcione, Colpa flammicoma and Colpa octomaculata texensis.

FIGURE 3. Female Colpa alcione. Scale bar = 2 mm.

FIGURE 4. Male Colpa alcione. Scale bar = 2 mm.

FIGURE 42. Genitalia of Campsomerini. A) Colpa alcione; B) C. flammicoma; C) C. octomaculata texensis; D) Dielis dorsata; E) D. tolteca; F) Pygodasis ephippium; G) P. hyialina; H) Stygocampsomeris servillei; I) Xanthocampsomeris completa completa; J) X. hesterae; K) X. limosa.