A checklist of Scoliidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) from China Author Liu, Zhen 0000-0002-8670-0205 College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Hunan University of Arts and Science, Changde 415000, China. & qingniao 8.27 @ 163. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 8670 - 0205 Author Achterberg, Cornelis Van 0000-0002-6495-4853 State Key Lab of Rice Biology, Ministry of Agriculture Key Lab of Molecular Biology of Crop Pathogens and Insects, Institute of Insect Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China & kees @ vanachterberg. org; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6495 - 4853 kees@vanachterberg.org Author He, Jun-Hua State Key Lab of Rice Biology, Ministry of Agriculture Key Lab of Molecular Biology of Crop Pathogens and Insects, Institute of Insect Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China Author Chen, Xue-Xin 0000-0002-9109-8853 State Key Lab of Rice Biology, Ministry of Agriculture Key Lab of Molecular Biology of Crop Pathogens and Insects, Institute of Insect Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China & xxchen @ zju. edu. cn; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 9109 - 8853 xxchen@zju.edu.cn text Zootaxa 2021 2021-05-03 4966 2 101 126 journal article 6536 10.11646/zootaxa.4966.2.1 90731927-c853-4b70-865e-3d06d92a7e76 1175-5326 4736250 2FC3A0AC-258A-417E-A43B-1B5325B7001A 24. Carinoscolia nipponensis ( Uchida, 1933 ) , new status Scolia (Carinoscolia) vittifrons f. nipponensis Uchida, 1933: 242 , ♀ , Japan ( type in Entomological Museum, Sapporo) . Scolia nipponensis fascinata var. nipponensis : Betrem, 1941: 114 . Carinoscolia vittifrons nipponensis : Osten, 2005: 45 . Distribution. China ( Hubei , Sichuan ); Japan and Korea . Notes. The status of C. nipponensis has been changed several times. Originally, it was described as a variety of C. vittifrons (Sichel) when found by Uchida in Japan for its black head, darker wings, and the very small spots on T 3 in both sexes ( Uchida 1933 ). Betrem (1941) treated it as a variety of C. fascinata Smith by displaying the differences between C. fascinata and C. vittifrons . Osten (2005) treated it as a subspecies of C. vittifrons again. We found a male from Sichuan province of China (IOZ) and a female from Hubei (RMNH) of C. nipponensis , both are different from the nominate C. vittifrons . We consider C. nipponensis a separate species because of the distinct carina present on the area between the antennal sockets (“frontal spatium”) in both sexes and the nearly completely dark integument of both sexes.