Colpa tartara (de Saussure, 1880)

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 : 105-107

5. Colpa tartara (de Saussure, 1880)

Trielis tartara de Saussure, 1880: 26 , ♀, Russia (type in Zoological Institute , St. Petersburg).

Campsoscolia (Crioscolia) tartara tartara Bradley, 1950: 432 .

Crioscolia (Crioscolia) tartara: Betrem, 1972: 65 .

Colpa (Crioscolia) tartara: Lelej & Mokrousov, 2017: 12 ; Osten, 2005: 23.

Scolia (Trielis) mongolica Morawitz, 1889: 116 . (= Trielis konowi Gribodo, 1895 )

? Campsoscolia mongolica: Betrem, 1941: 50 .

Campsoscolia (Campsoscolia) mongolica: Bradley, 1950: 433 .

Colpa (Crioscolia) tartara mongolica: Osten, 2005: 23 .

Distribution. China (Neimenggu, Xinjiang); Afghanistan, Armenia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Russian, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.

Notes. The male from China in RMNH identified as C. mongolica by Betrem ( Fig. 1 ) has the head missing and differs from the nominate C. tartara ( Fig. 2 ) because of the robust marginal cell of the fore wing (elongate in C. tartara ); the medially interrupted yellow bands on the first two metasomal tergites (broad and continuous in C. tartara ); and strongly constricted first metasomal tergite (less constricted in C. tartara ).

Colpa mongolica was treated as a subspecies of C. tartara ( Osten 2005) or as a full synonym ( Lelej & Mokrousov 2017); the reported flat surface of the area between the antennal sockets (“spatium frontale”) for C. mongolica is apparently a character too variable to be of any use to differentiate the species.

Figures

FIGURE 1. Male of Colpa cf. mongolica (Morawitz, 1889) from China, a. habitus, dorsal aspect; b. mesosoma, lateral aspect; c. mesosoma, dorsal aspect; d. fore wing.

FIGURE 2. Female of Colpa tartara (de Saussure, 1880) from East Kazakhstan, a. head, anterior aspect; b. head, dorsal aspect; c. habitus, dorsal aspect;. head and mesosoma, lateral aspect; e. fore wing.