Pygodasis ephippium ephippium Say, 1837

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 : 62-63

Pygodasis ephippium ephippium Say, 1837

Female. Body length 37.5 mm (range 30.1 mm – 43.3 mm); forewing length 28.7 mm; Structure. Clypeus, interantennal area and frons densely and coarsely punctured; vertex and gena with coarse scattered punctures; mesosoma coarsely punctured; propodeum densely and coarsely punctate throughout; hind tibial spurs acute. Color. Setae entirely black; orange maculations covering almost the entire disks of T2–T3; wings dark with violaceous reflections ( Fig. 13 ).

Male. Body length 29 mm (range 19.6 mm – 35.4 mm); forewing length 23.7 mm; Structure. Clypeus margins, interantennal area and frons coarsely and densely punctate; punctures on vertex and gena coarse and sparse; mesosoma covered with coarse and dense punctures. Genitalia ( Fig. 42F ). Parameres robust, apex rounded, ventral face polished with long thick dense setae in the mid area; volsellae with dense long erect setae. Color. Resembling females ( Fig. 14 ).

Valid subspecies Pygodasis ephippium wagneriana Saussure, 1864 is differentiated by wings yellowish hyaline with ferruginous veins ( Bradley 1945).

Distribution: NA and NT. Mexico: Chiapas, Coahuila, Estado de México, Guanajuato, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Michoacán, Morelos, Nuevo León, Puebla, Querétaro, Sinaloa Veracruz, Yucatán. Guatemala: Huehuetenango ( Map 4 ). Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana and United States of America ( Bradley 1945; Porter 1981; Fernandez & Cubillos 1999).

Figures

MAP 4. Distribution of Pygodasis ephippium ephippium and Pygodasis hyalina.

FIGURE 13. Female Pygodasis ephippium ephippium. Scale bar = 2 mm.

FIGURE 14. Male Pygodasis ephippium ephippium. Scale bar = 2 mm.

FIGURE 42. Genitalia of Campsomerini. A) Colpa alcione; B) C. flammicoma; C) C. octomaculata texensis; D) Dielis dorsata; E) D. tolteca; F) Pygodasis ephippium; G) P. hyialina; H) Stygocampsomeris servillei; I) Xanthocampsomeris completa completa; J) X. hesterae; K) X. limosa.