Xantocampsomeris limosa Burmeister, 1854

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 : 69

Xantocampsomeris limosa Burmeister, 1854

Female. Body length 17.9 mm (range 13.7 mm – 23.6 mm); forewing length 23.9 mm; Structure. Clypeus margins punctate; interantennal area and frons densely punctured; vertex and gena shiny with coarse sparse punctures; pronotum densely punctured; dorsal surface or mesosoma densely punctured excepting the medial area of mesoscutum and scutellum; coarse and close punctures on dorsal face of propodeum and on the upper half of posterior face; hind tibial spurs spatulate. Color. Setae yellow to reddish on head, dorsal surface of mesosoma and metasoma, and S5–S6, white setae elsewhere; body black; yellow spots on T1–T3 and sometimes T4; wings hyaline ( Fig. 23 )

Male. Body length 16 mm (range 12 mm – 19.5 mm); forewing length 12.1 mm; Structure. Upper margin of clypeus, interantennal area densely punctate; fronts, vertex and gena with some punctures; dorsal surface of mesosoma shiny; pronotum densely punctured; dorsal surface or mesosoma densely punctured excepting the medial area of mesoscutum and scutellum; posterior face of propodeum moderately punctate; fore wings hairy along the anterior margin. Genitalia ( Fig. 42K ). Parameres robust, gently curved inward, apex margin blunt, ventral face polished with long scattered setae; volsellae with long sparse setae. Color. Setae pale yellow on head and dorsal surface of mesosoma and metasoma, those on apical terga (T5–T7) and sterna (S5–S7) black; setae white elsewhere; two subtriangular yellow spots on lateral margins of clypeus; a yellow subtriangular spot on each side of pronotum; yellow maculations on scutellum, metanotum, dorsal face of fore and mid tibiae, dorsal face of fore basitarsi; yellow bands on lower half of T1–T4 (occasionally on T5), and apical margin of S2–S3; wings hyaline ( Fig. 24 ).

Distribution. NA and NT. Mexico: Aguascalientes, Campeche, Chiapas, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Estado de México, Guanajuato, Jalisco, Michoacán, Morelos, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Puebla, Querétaro, Tamaulipas, Tlaxcala, San Luis Potosí, Veracruz ( Map 5 ). United States of America and Mexico (Rohwer1927; MacKay 1987)

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MAP 5. Distribution of Xanthocampsomeris completa completa, Xanthocampsomeris hesterae and Xanthocampsomeris limosa.

FIGURE 23. Female Xanthocampsomeris limosa. Sclae bar = 2mm.

FIGURE 24. Male Xanthocampsomeris limosa. 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.