Scolia carbonaria

Scolia carbonaria is a species of wasp in the family Scoliidae.

Scolia carbonaria
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Scoliidae
Genus: Scolia
Species:
S. carbonaria
Binomial name
Scolia carbonaria
(Linneus, 1767)

The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1767 using the name Apis carbonaria. The genus Apis is now part of the bee family Apidae and the species Linnaeus described as Apis carbonaria was based upon a Scoliid wasp,[1] so the original name has become a Basionym.[2] Species later synonymised with Scolia carbonaria include Scolia maura by Johan Fabricius (1793), and Scolia neglecta by Domenico Cirillo (1787).[3]

A specimen of this species which belonged to Carl Linnaeus is held in the collections of the Linnean Society, London.[4]

Characteristics

Scolia carbonaria has wings that are brown in colour rather than transparent.[3] It is considered a melanistic species.[5] In 2019 Jean-Baptiste Castagnet and Jacques Bitsch produced a key to show how Scolia carbonaria can be distinguished in its characteristics from the similar-looking species Scolia (Discolia) propodealis and the melanistic form of Scolia hortorum, for example S. carbonaria averages at a slightly larger size than the other two species (females at 17–19 mm in length, and males at 16–18 mm).[5]

Distribution

Based upon live observations and preserved museum specimens Scolia carbonaria has a wide distribution across the Mediterranean, Middle East and Asia, having been observed in Algeria, Egypt, India, Israel, Palestine, Spain, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, the United Arab Emirates,[6] and Italy.[7]

References
  1. Baker, D.B. (29 December 1995). "A review of the Asian species of the genus Euaspis Gerstäcker (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Megachilidae)". Zool. Med. Leiden. 69 (22): 284.
  2. "Apis carbonaria Linneus, 1767". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 2023-02-21.
  3. Soppelsa, Ottavio (2021). "Le tavole entomologiche inedite di Domenico Cirillo". I disegni inediti di Domenico Cirillo nella Società dei Naturalista in Napoli. (in Italian). Federico II University Press: 175.
  4. "Apis carbonaria". linnean-online.org. 2009-02-17. Retrieved 2023-02-11.
  5. Castagnet, Jean-Baptiste; Bitsch, Jacques (March 2019). "Redescription de Scolia (Discolia) propodealis Saunders, 1901, et liste des espèces ouest-paléarctiques du sous-genre Discolia Saussure, 1863 (Hymenoptera, Scoliidae)". Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France (in French). 124 (1): 33–38 – via www.researchgate.net.
  6. "Scolia carbonaria (Linneus, 1767)". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 2023-02-11.
  7. Turrisi, Giuseppe Fabrizio; Altadonna, Giovanni; Lo Cascio, Pietro; Nobile, Vittorio; Selis, Marco (2020). "Contribution to the knowledge of Hymenoptera from the Aeolian Archipelago (Sicily), emphasizing Aculeata". Biodiversity Journal. 11 (3): 722 – via www.researchgate.net.
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