Carinoscolia yunnanensis ( Betrem, 1941 )

Liu, Zhen, Achterberg, Cornelis Van, He, Jun-Hua & Chen, Xue-Xin, 2021, A checklist of Scoliidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) from China, Zootaxa 4966 (2), pp. 101-126 : 113

26. Carinoscolia yunnanensis ( Betrem, 1941)

Scolia (Carinoscolia) junnanensis Betrem, 1928: 188 (nomen nudum), ♀, China (type in Vienna Museum).

Scolia (Carinoscolia) yunnanensis Betrem, 1941: 116 .

Scolia (Carinoscolia) yunnanensis tibetensis Betrem, 1941: 116 . (♀, type in Cornell University, Ithaca).

Distribution. China (Fujian, Xizang, Yunnan); Japan and Vietnam.

Notes. Scolia (Carinoscolia) yunnanensis tibetensis Betrem was reported as a subspecies of C. yunnanensis Betrem, 1941 . Betrem (1941) mentioned some differences between them: only T3 with yellowish brown spots, metasoma with blue reflections, wings brownish, but not dark, with golden reflections and carina on frons indistinct, S2 with a distinct tubercle in C. tibetensis . We did not have the chance to examine the specimen from Tibet, but we found a female of C. yunnanensis (det. Betrem, 1967) in RMNH from Fujian, which has the characters of C. tibetensis displayed above, to be conspecific with specimens of nominate C. yunnanensis ; both shared some characters of C. tibetensis and, therefore, we synonymize both subspecies.