Superfamily SCOLIOIDEA 1319 



Unplaced Taxon of Scolia Subgenus Discolia Saussure 



bifasciata (Swederus). N. Y. 



Sphex (Scolia) bifasciata Swederus, 1787. Svensk. Vetensk.-Akad., Handl. 8: 281. This is 

 possibly the same as typical nobilitata (F.). 



Genus TRISCOLIA Saussure 



Scolia subg. Triscolia Saussure, 1863. Soc. Ent. France, Ann. (4) 3: 17. 

 Type-species: Scolia (Triscolia) badia Saussure. Monotypic. 



Taxonomy: Betrem and Bradley, 1964. Zool. Meded. 39: 436-437 (description). 

 ardens (Smith). Tex., N. Mex., Ariz., Calif., ?Oreg., south into Mexico. 



Scolia fenida Burmeister, 1853. Naturf. Gesell. Halle, Abhandl. 1 (4): 20. 9, 6. Preocc. 

 Scolia ardens Smith, 1855. Cat. Hym. Brit. Mus., v. 3, p. 112. N. name. 

 Scolia Montezumae Saussure, 1857. Rev. Mag. Zool. (2) 9: 281. 9. 



Taxonomy: Bradley, 1966. In Bradley and Betrem, 1966, Beitr. z. Ent. 16: 75-76 (lectotype 

 fervida). 



Family SAPYGIDAE 



All of the known records confirm that members of this family are parasitic in the nests of 

 other aculeate Hymenoptera. The sapygid egg is apparently inserted through the cell closure in 

 the host nest and usually hatches before the host egg. The newly hatched larvae of Sapi/ga cen- 

 trata Say, S. louisi Krombein and S. pumila Cresson destroy the host egg and then develop on 

 the pollen stored by the host bee; the larvae of S. confluenta Cresson and of Ensapyga rubripes 

 proxima (Cresson) feed on the host larva after the latter has spun its cocoon. Development to 

 the adult stage appears to be concurrent with that of the host. Sapygids parasitic on vernal bees 

 transform to adults late in the summer, as do the host bees, and overwinter in the cocoons, 

 emerging in the spring. 



Revision: Pate, 1947. Acta Zool. Lilloana (Tucuman) 4: 396-402. 



Taxonomy: Pate, 1946. Ent. News 57: 219-221 (list of type-species). —Tobias, 1965. Zool. 

 Zhur. (Moscow) 44: 706-715, 4 figs, (family classification). 



Subfamily FEDTSCHENKIINAE 



This subfamily includes only the primitive fossorial genus Fedtschenkia Sauss. It has a 

 disjunct distribution in xeric Holarctic areas, the five described species being known from Turk- 

 menia, Uzbekistan, Tadzhikistan, Iran, Lebanon, Israel and western United States. Modern Eu- 

 ropean workers have considered that Fedtschenkia constitutes a separate family based on the 

 erroneous assumption that it is a free-living fossorial form, probably parasitic on soil-dwelling 

 larvae as in the Scoliidae. The single North American species of Fedtschenkia is a parasite of 

 the ground-nesting eumenid wasp, Pterochilus trichogaster Bohart. 



Genus FEDTSCHENKIA Saussure 



Fedtschenkia Saussure, 1880. In Fedtschenko, Reise in Turkestan, II, Zool. Th., 13 

 Hymenoptera: Scoliidae, p. 13. 



Type-species: Fedtschenkia grossa Saussure. Monotypic. 

 Cosilella Banks, 1913. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., Bui. 32: 237. 



Type-species: Cosila phitonis Banks. Orig. desig. 



Taxonomy: Bradley, 1955. Ent. News 66: 230-233. 

 anthracina (Ashmead). Wash., Calif., Colo., N. Mex. Ecology: Visits flowers of Chaenactis, 

 Chorizanthe, Crypiantha, Eriogonum, EriophyllKm, Melilotus and Wislizenia. Host: 

 Pterocheilus trichogaster Bohart in soil. 

 Telephoromyia anthracina Ashmead, 1898. Psyche 8: 251. S. 

 Plesia (Myzine) nigropilosella Cameron, 1908. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 34: 237. 9. 

 Cosila plutonis Banks, 1913. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., Bui. 32: 237. 9. 



Biology: Bohart and Schuster, 1972. Pan-Pacific Ent. 48: 149 (host record). 



