Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Trielis Saussure 1863 (synonymized by Day
et al. 1981). Argaman (1996) treated
Colpa and
Trielis as separate genera. Osten (2005) further treated
Crioscolia as a subgenus of
Colpa.
(1) Khouri et al. (2022) maintained Osten's treatment but excluded
Colpa from Campsomerini.
(2)
Colpa Dufour, 1841
=Crioscolia Bradley, 1951
=Trielis Saussure, 1863
Explanation of Names
Colpa Dufour, 1841
= likely from the Latin culpa and Proto-Italic kʷolpā ('wrong, mistake, blame, erratum')
Numbers
4 spp. in our area:
(3)(4)
1. Colpa (Colpa) octomaculata (Say, 1823) - with 3 sspp.
2. Colpa (Colpa) pollenifera (Viereck, 1906)
3. Colpa (Crioscolia) alcione (Banks, 1917)
4. Colpa (Crioscolia) flammicoma (Bradley, 1928)
Identification
Wing venation with 3 submarginal cells and 2 recurrent veins.
Overview of species
Keys to this genus in North America by Bradley (1928) and Ramírez Guillén et al. (2022)
(4).
Colpa (Colpa): female interantennal space less strongly elevated, male with flagellum not modified
Colpa (Colpa) octomaculata: scutellum without median sulcus in both sexes, ground color of at least head of female red in western subspecies (black in the eastern subspecies, C. o. hermione)
Colpa (Colpa) pollenifera: scutellum with median sulcus in both sexes, ground color of head and thorax black and of abdomen red, wings conspicuously violaceous
Colpa (Crioscolia): female interantennal space forming a strongly elevated platform and scutellum with median sulcus, male with proximal part of flagellum conspicuously narrower than distal part and scutellum without median sulcus
Colpa (Crioscolia) alcione: ground color of all tagmata black with yellow markings
Colpa (Crioscolia) flammicoma: ground color of all tagmata red with yellow markings
Range
Transcontinental over most of our covered area south of about 42°N latitude.
Print References
Argaman, Q. (1996) Generic synopsis of Scoliidae (Hymenoptera, Scolioidea). Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici, 88: 171–222.
Bradley, J.C. (1928) A revision of the New World species of
Trielis a subgenus of
Campsomeris (Hymenoptera: Scoliidae).
Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 54: 195–214 + plate 22. (
Full Text)
Day, M.C., Else, G.R., & Morgan, D. (1981) The most primitive Scoliidae (Hymenoptera). Journal of Natural History, 15: 671–684.