Scolia rufiventris Fabricius, 1804

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 : 78

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.

Figures

MAP 6. Distribution of Scolia dubia haematodes, Scolia nobilitata nobilitata, Scolia nobilitata trincincta, Scolia rufiventris and Scolia vintschgaui.

FIGURE 35. Male Scolia rufiventris. Scale bar = 2 mm.

FIGURE 43. Genitalia of Scoliini. A) Scolia dubia haematodes; B) S. fuscipennis; C) S. guttata guttata; D) S. mexicana; E) S. nobilitata tricincta; F) S. rufiventris; G) S. vintschgaui; H) Triscolia ardens; I) T. badia.