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 guttata guttata Burmeister, 1854 Female. Body length 26.9 mm ( 19.2 mm 36.3 mm ); forewing length 20.2 mm ; Structure. More less straightlower margin of clypeus with lateral margins punctured; interantennal area densely and coarsely punctured; frons with scattered punctate; vertex and gena scattered punctate; mesosoma coarsely and scattered punctate; anterior face densely and coarsely punctured and posterior face of propodeum coarsely and scattered; hind tibial spurs acute; metasoma scattered and coarsely punctured; S2 with two tubercules; pygidium with strong a tooth-like projection on each lateral margin. Color. Setae entirely black; metanotum rarely with yellow spot; T2–T3, T2–T4, T1–T4 or T1–T5 with yellow spots on each side, or without spots; wings dark with violaceous reflections ( Fig. 28 ). Male. Body length 21.1 mm (range 14.5 mm – 26.6 mm ); forewing length 17.3 mm ; Structure. Clypeus, interantennal area, frons, vertex and gena densely and coarsely punctured; mesosoma densely and coarsely punctured; propodeum densely and coarsely punctured; metasoma densely and coarsely punctured; S2 with two tubercules. Genitalia ( Fig. 43C ). Parameres more or less straight, ventral face polished with some sparse setae in the margin; volsellae with short sparse setae. Color. Resembling females also; rarely pronotum with a yellow spot on each side ( Fig. 29 ). Valid subspecies. Scolia guttata var. eximia Smith, 1855 is differentiated by body entirely black ( Bartlett 1912 ). Distribution. NA and NT. Mexico : Chiapas , Coahuila Guanajuato , Hidalgo , Michoacán , Nayarit Oaxaca , Puebla , Querétaro , San Luis Potosí , Veracruz ( Map 7 ). Colombia , Costa Rica , Guatemala , Nicaragua , Panama , United States of America and Venezuela ( Cameron 1893 ; Barlett 1912; MacKay 1987 ; Añino et al. 2020 ).