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Triscolia ardens Smith 1855

  • 1. Posgrado en Ciencias en Recursos Naturales y Desarrollo Rural, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Carretera Panamericana y Periférico Sur s / n C. P. 29290, San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, México.
  • 2. Department of Entomology, University of Kentucky Research & Education Center, 348 University Drive, Princeton, KY 42445, USA. armandofalcon 123 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2496 - 2178
  • 3. Departamento de Conservación, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Carretera Panamericana y Periférico Sur s / n C. P. 29290, San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, México. bgomez @ ecosur. mx; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 7260 - 6744

Description

Triscolia ardens Smith, 1855

Female. Body length 24.6 mm (range 23.4 mm – 26.5 mm); forewing length 19.8 mm; Structure. Lateral margins of clypeus punctured; interantennal area and frons densely and coarsely punctured; vertex and gena with scattered punctures; mesosoma densely and coarsely punctured; propodeum densely and coarsely punctate throughout; hind tibial spurs acute. Color. Setae and body black and from the third ferruginous segment of metasoma with ferruginous setae; wings dark with violaceous reflections (Fig. 38).

Male. Body length 23.7 mm (range 23.6 mm – 23.9 mm); forewing length 19.1 mm; Structure. Lateral margins of clypeus, interantennal area, frons, vertex and gena densely and coarsely punctured; mesosoma densely and coarsely punctured; propodeum densely and coarsely punctate throughout. Genitalia (Fig. 43H). Base of parameres thin, after oval; ventral face polished with setae in the endges; volsellae with short sparse setae. Color. Resembling females (Fig. 39)

Distribution. NA. Mexico: Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, Sonora (Map 8). United States of America (Barlett 1912; Hurd 1952; Betrem & Bradley 1964; MacKay 1987).

Notes

Published as part of Ramírez-Guillén, Luis Damián, Falcon-Brindis, Armando & Gómez, Benigno, 2022, The Scoliidae wasps (Hymenoptera: Scolioidea) of Mexico: taxonomy and biogeography, pp. 47-88 in Zootaxa 5214 (1) on page 80, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5214.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/7381933

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Smith
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Scoliidae
Genus
Triscolia
Species
ardens
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Triscolia ardens Smith, 1855 sec. Ramírez-Guillén, Falcon-Brindis & Gómez, 2022

References

  • Smith, F. (1855) Catalogue of the Hymenopterous Insects in the collection of the British Museum Part III. Mutillidae and Pompilidae. Taylor and Francis, London, 206 pp.
  • Hurd, P. D. (1952) The Scoliidae of California (Hymenoptera: Aculeata). Bulletin of the California Insect Survey, 1 (6), 141 - 152.
  • Betrem, J. G. & Bradley, J. C. (1964) Annotations on the Genera Triscolia, Megascolia and Scolia (Hymenoptera, Scoliidae) Zoologische Mededelingen, 39 (43), 433 - 444.
  • MacKay, W. P. (1987) The Scoliid Wasps of the Southwestern United States (Hymenoptera: Scoliidae). The Southwestern Naturalist, 32 (3), 357 - 362. https: // doi. org / 10.2307 / 3671453