The Scoliidae wasps (Hymenoptera: Scolioidea) of Mexico: taxonomy and biogeography Author Ramírez-Guillén, Luis Damián Posgrado en Ciencias en Recursos Naturales y Desarrollo Rural, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Carretera Panamericana y Periférico Sur s / n C. P. 29290, San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, México. Author Falcon-Brindis, Armando 0000-0003-2496-2178 Department of Entomology, University of Kentucky Research & Education Center, 348 University Drive, Princeton, KY 42445, USA. armandofalcon 123 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2496 - 2178 armandofalcon123@gmail.com Author Gómez, Benigno 0000-0002-7260-6744 Departamento de Conservación, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Carretera Panamericana y Periférico Sur s / n C. P. 29290, San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, México. bgomez @ ecosur. mx; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 7260 - 6744 bgomez@ecosur.mx text Zootaxa 2022 2022-11-30 5214 1 47 88 journal article 199054 10.11646/zootaxa.5214.1.2 d2fe81b2-08b6-4c40-8082-53c5faad2a5c 1175-5326 7381933 4396E2FC-2FBE-4F0D-B5E5-50B74F32CE01 Scolia fuscipennis Bartlett, 1912 Female. Unknow. In the description that Bartlett (1912) made, he mentions that the description was made from two males collected in Veracruz and the female is not mentioned . Male. Body length 20.2 mm ( 20.2 mm 20.2 mm ); forewing length 16 mm ; Structure. Clypeus, interantennal area, frons, and vertex densely and coarsely punctured; gena striate; mesosoma coarsely punctured; propodeum densely and coarsely punctate throughout; hind tibial spurs acute. Genitalia ( Fig. 43B ). Parameres shorts; tip curved, ventral face polished wih some sparse setae; volsellae with short sparse setae. Color . Setae entirely black; yellow spot behind the eye; propodeum with wide band on each side; mesoscotum, scutellum with yellow spot; propodeum with wide yellow spots on each side and in the middle; T1–T4 and S2 with wide yellow spots on each side; wings dark with violaceous reflections ( Fig. 27 ). Distribution. NT. Mexico : Veracruz ( Map 7 ).