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 vintschgaui Dalla Torre, 1893 Female. Body length 12.4 mm (range 12 mm – 12.7 mm ); forewing length 9.7 mm ; Structure. Lateral margins of clypeus punctured; interantennal area; frons, vertex and gena with densely and coarsely punctured; mesosoma densely and coarsely punctured; posterior face of propodeum scattered and coarsely punctate; hind tibial spurs acute. Color . Body black with whitish setae; posterior margin of the eye with a yellow band; pronotum with yellow bands on each side; metanotum with yellow spot; T3–T5 with yellow band; wings fuscous hyaline, more foscous in the anterior margin of the forewings ( Fig. 36 ). FIGURE 35. Male Scolia rufiventris . Scale bar = 2 mm. FIGURE 36. Female Scolia vintschgaui . Scale bar = 2 mm. Male. Body length 14.7 mm (range 14.4 mm – 15.1 mm ); forewing length 11.2 mm ; Structure. Lateral margins of clypeus punctured; frons scattered punctate; interantennal area, frons, vertex and gena striate; mesosoma densely and coarsely punctured; posterior face of propodeum scattered and coarsely punctate. Genitalia ( Fig. 43G ). Parameres converging towards the apex; ventral face polished; volsellae with long sparse setae, apice with long dense setae. Color. Resembling females also, anterior margin of the eye with a yellow band ( Fig. 37 ). Distribution. NA and NT. Mexico : Baja California Sur and Guerrero ( Map 6 ).