Triscolia ardens Smith, 1855 Female. Body length 24.6 mm (range 23.4 mm – 26.5 mm); forewing length 19.8 mm; Structure. Lateral margins of clypeus punctured; interantennal area and frons densely and coarsely punctured; vertex and gena with scattered punctures; mesosoma densely and coarsely punctured; propodeum densely and coarsely punctate throughout; hind tibial spurs acute. Color. Setae and body black and from the third ferruginous segment of metasoma with ferruginous setae; wings dark with violaceous reflections (Fig. 38). Male. Body length 23.7 mm (range 23.6 mm – 23.9 mm); forewing length 19.1 mm; Structure. Lateral margins of clypeus, interantennal area, frons, vertex and gena densely and coarsely punctured; mesosoma densely and coarsely punctured; propodeum densely and coarsely punctate throughout. Genitalia (Fig. 43H). Base of parameres thin, after oval; ventral face polished with setae in the endges; volsellae with short sparse setae. Color. Resembling females (Fig. 39) Distribution. NA. Mexico: Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, Sonora (Map 8). United States of America (Barlett 1912; Hurd 1952; Betrem & Bradley 1964; MacKay 1987).

Published as part of Ramírez-Guillén, Luis Damián, Falcon-Brindis, Armando & Gómez, Benigno, 2022, The Scoliidae wasps (Hymenoptera: Scolioidea) of Mexico: taxonomy and biogeography, pp. 47-88 in Zootaxa 5214 (1) on page 80, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5214.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/7381933