Scolia mexicana Saussure, 1858

Female. Body length 20.8 mm (range 18.3 mm – 23.2 mm); forewing length 15.4 mm; Structure. Curved lower margin of clypeus with lateral margins punctured; interantennal area; frons, vertex and gena densely and coarsely punctured; mesosoma densely and coarsely punctured; propodeum densely and coarsely punctate throughout; metasoma densely and coarsely punctured; hind tibial spurs acute S2 with a single tubercule. Color. Setae entirely black; T2–T3 or only T3 with yellow spots on each side, or without spots; wings dark with violaceous reflections (Fig. 30).

Male. Body length 19.5 mm (range 16.9 mm – 22.7 mm); forewing length 15.9 mm; Structure. Clypeus, interantennal area; frons, vertex and gena densely and coarsely punctured; mesosoma densely and coarsely punctured; propodeum densely and coarsely punctate throughout; metasoma densely and coarsely punctured; S2 with a single tubercule. Genitalia (Fig. 43D). Parameres converging towards the apex; apical half ventral face polished with some sparce setae and the other half wih sparse setae; volsellae with short sparse setae. Color. Resembling females (Fig. 31).

Distribution. NA and NT. Mexico: Estado de México, Chiapas, Coahuila, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Michoacán, Morelos, Querétaro (Map 7). United States of America (MacKay 1987).