Scolia nobilitata tricincta Say, 1823

Female. Body length 12.4 mm; forewing length 9 mm; Structure. Clypeus punctated in the margins; interantennal area densely punctured; frons and vertex scattered shallow punctured; gena polished with some punctured; mesosoma densely and shallow punctured; propodeum densely and coarsely punctate throughout; hind tibial spurs acute. Color. Saetae yellow and body ferruginous; margins of the eyes with a yellow band extending to the vertex; mesopleuron, pronotum, scutellum, metanotum with yellow spots; T1–T5 with yellow spots on each side; wings fuscous hyaline with violaceous reflections (Fig. 33).

Male. Body length 12.4 mm (range 12.3 mm – 12.5 mm); forewing length 9.2 mm; Structure. Clypeus punctated in the margins; interantennal area and frons densely punctured; vertex and gena scattered punctured; mesosoma with shallow punctured; propodeum shallow punctate throughout. Genitalia (Fig. 43E). Parameres more or less straight, ventral face polished with some sparse setae in the margin; volsellae with short sparse setae, apice with long dense setae. Color. Setae yellow, head and mesosoma black, metasoma ferruginous; clypeus yellow in top margin, or not; eyes with yellow band in anterior and posterior margins; mesopleuron, pronotum, scutellum, metanotum with yellow spots; T1–T5 or T2–T4 and S2 with yellow spots on each side; wings fuscous hyaline (Fig. 34).

Valid subspecies: Scolia nobilitata otomita Saussure, 1858, Scolia nobilitata otomita var. consors Saussure, 1863 .

Distribution. NA. Mexico: Baja California Sur (Map 6). United States of America (Barlett 1912; MacKay 1987; Grisell 2007).