Scolia (Discolia) quadripustulata Fabricius, 1782

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 : 121-122

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4966.2.1

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4736375

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F2BD7C-AB75-FFB3-FF29-F0DEFCF6FEEA

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Plazi

scientific name

Scolia (Discolia) quadripustulata Fabricius, 1782
status

 

2. Scolia (Discolia) quadripustulata Fabricius, 1782

The name Scolia quadripustulata Fabricius was misapplied for a long time to another species now known as S. binotata Fabricius ( Gupta & Jonathan, 2003). We checked all specimens from China in IOZ and RMNH, and all were found to belong to Scolia (Discolia) binotata Fabricius. The following characters may be used to separate both species.

The male of S. binotata ( Fig. 5a1–5a3, 5b1–5b3 View FIGURE 5 View FIGURE 1 View FIGURE 2 View FIGURE 3 View FIGURE 4 ) has the erect vestiture predominantly white on the head and mesosoma (vestiture on head and mesosoma black in S. quadripustulata ) and antennal flagellum short, clavate towards apex, and penultimate segments as broad as long (flagellum distinctly longer and not clavate towards apex and penultimate segments longer than broad in S. quadripustulata ).

The female of S. binotata ( Fig. 5c1–5c, 5d1–5d3 View FIGURE 5 View FIGURE 1 View FIGURE 2 View FIGURE 3 View FIGURE 4 ) has the pronotum dorso-posteriorly (“scapulae”) and posterior half of mesoscutum medially and scutellum with a few scattered punctures(densely punctate in S.quadripustulata with small impunctate area on scutellum medio-posteriorly), anterior rim of clypeus broadly rounded anteriorly (anterior rim of clypeus truncate anteriorly in S. quadripustulata ), and metapleuron largely impunctate (subcontiguously punctate in S. quadripustulata ). All reported records of S. quadripustulata from China concern S. binotata ; therefore, we delete S. quadripustulata from the Chinese checklist.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Scoliidae

Genus

Scolia

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