identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
B57687F3856CB029801A72B5FB329C38.text	B57687F3856CB029801A72B5FB329C38.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Scolomus Townes & Townes	<div><p>Scolomus Townes &amp; Townes</p><p>Scolomus Townes &amp; Townes, 1950: 420 . Type­species: Scolomus viridis Townes, by original designation.</p><p>Apolophus Townes, 1971: 111 . Type­species: Apolophus borealis Townes), by original designation. Syn. nov.</p><p>borealis (Townes, 1971) comb. n. [Nearctic, W. Palaearctic] magellanicus Walkley, 1962 [Neantarctic]</p><p>talamanca (Gauld &amp; Sithole, 2002) comb. n. [Neotropical] viridis Townes &amp; Townes, 1950 [Neantarctic]</p><p>In addition to the four described species mentioned above, we have seen seven undescribed species from Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Ecuador in the AEIC (labelled as such by us).</p><p>For reasons given in the discussion below, the redefined genus Scolomus is placed in the Metopiinae, and it may be recognized by the following features:</p><p>head rather elongate, with an exceptionally long malar space, 1.2–1.8 times basal mandibular width (Figs. 2, 5);</p><p>clypeus large, subquadrate, with supraclypeal suture weakly impressed to absent, thus in most species with face and clypeus more or less forming a single smooth plane (Figs. 2, 5);</p><p>occipital carina ventrally incomplete;</p><p>mandibles slender with ventral tooth about 0.5 or less of length of dorsal tooth; fore wing with areolet quadrate to pentagonal (Figs. 1, 4);</p><p>fore wing with broad and triangular pterostigma (Figs. 1, 4);</p><p>hind wing with basal abscissa of vein M+Cu 1 strongly arched, and the distal abscissa of vein Cu 1 joining vein cu­a far closer to vein 1 A than to vein M (Figs. 1, 4);</p><p>metasoma with 1st tergite with median basal depression bordered laterally by raised sides, glymmae deep meeting at midline and often only separated by a translucent partition;</p><p>female with hypopygium large, bowed, but not medioventrally folded.</p><p>ovipositor slender, slightly upcurved and lacking dorsal subapical notch.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/B57687F3856CB029801A72B5FB329C38	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Gauld, Ian D.;Wahl, David B.	Gauld, Ian D., Wahl, David B. (2006): The relationship and taxonomic position of the genera Apolophus and Scolomus (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae). Zootaxa 1130: 35-41, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.171877
