Aelocampsomeris variegata Fabricius, 1793

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 : 52

Aelocampsomeris variegata Fabricius, 1793

Female. Body length 32.8 mm (range 30.8 mm – 34.9 mm); forewing length 24.4 mm; Structure. Clypeus punctuate along margins, central area striated; interantennal area and lower area of area of frons coarsely and densely punctured; vertex and gena shiny with sparse punctures; pronotum coarsely punctured; mesoscutum, scutellum, and metanotum with sparse punctures; dorsal area of propodeum coarsely punctured, posterior face impunctate with scattered punctures on the lateral margins; hind tibial spurs acute; pygidium with strong a tooth-like projection on each lateral margin. Color. Setae and body entirely black; wings light brown, contrastingly darker along the anterior forewing cells ( Fig. 2 ).

Male. Not found in this study. Large and moderately stout, but less so than the female. Vestiture white, the tibial spurs black. More heavily marked with yellow than are the females; terga 1 to 5 banded, the bands interrupted on 2 to 5, the clypeus, united scapulae, scutellum, metanotum, area horizontalis medialis, lateral corners of propodeum, and spots and stripes on the pleura and legs, all yellow. Wings hyaline, membrane bare beyond the cells. Some reduction of the typical male coloration occurs ( Bradley 1957).

Distribution. NA and NT. Mexico: Coahuila and Querétaro ( Map 1 ). Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Panama, Peru Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela, British Guiana, Dutch Guiana and French Guiana ( Bradley 1945).

Figures

MAP 1. Distribution of Aelocampsomeris variegata, Rhabdotimeris rokitanskyi and Stygocampsomeris servillei.

FIGURE 2. Female Aelocampsomeris variegata. Scale bar = 2 mm.