Scolia rufiventris Fabricius, 1804

Female not found in this study. Head and thorax black, very shiny and polished, showing only fine punctuations; central area of propodeum punctate, as well as its two lateral portions above; mandibles brown; legs and abdomen ferruginous, provided with ferruginous hairs; wings dark with violaceous reflections (Saussure 1858).

Male. Body length 16.3 mm; forewing length 12 mm; Structure. Clypeus punctate in the margins; interantennal area, frons and vertex densely and coarsely punctured; gena with some punctures; mesosoma coarsely punctured; dorsal face propodeum densely and coarsely punctate throughout; posterior face of propodeum scattered punctate. Genitalia (Fig. 43F). Parameres slender basally, and oval towards the distal portion, ventral face polished, margins with sparse setae; volsellae with short sparse setae. Color. Setae ferruginous; body mainly black; T2–T7 ferruginous; wings dark with violaceous reflections (Fig. 35).

Distribution. NT. Honduras: Comayagua (Map 6). Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guiana, Mexico, Panama and Peru, (Fabricius 1804; Saussure 1858; Fox 1896; Dos Santos et al. 2015; Añino et al. 2020.