Matskási István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 88. (Budapest 1996)
Argaman, Q.: Generic synopsis of Scoliidae (Hymenoptera, Scolioidea)
Clypeus of the male yellow only on the sides; female head with a deep temporal groove beyond outer eye orbits. - Afrotropical Region. Type species: (Campsomeris mansuefacta BRADLEY, 1931) = Elis soleata GERSTAECKER, 1871 Megameris BETREM, 1967 APPENDIX The identity of the species Lacosia pygmaea SAUSSURE is imperative for the stability and universality of Zoological Nomenclature. The type material of SAUSSURE was examined and discussed by BETREM (1928: 207), BRADLEY (1958: 103), KROMBEIN (1963: 625), and conclusively by PETERSEN (1970: 58). This species was originally described as coining from Australia, but PETERSEN assumed that the material actually came from South Africa. The specimens found by him in the collection of the Museum of Natural History, Geneva, are identical with Scolia hottentotta SAUSSURE, 1858, but one of the specimens was deprived of its genitalia. The lectotype was, however, not found. It is necessary to designate a neotype in view to conserve the generic-group name Lacosia. The material I am selecting is from the same source as those studied by PETERSEN. The original description of SAUSSURE refers to a species with: Body black, with blackish-violaceous wings, gray pubescence, abdomen long, iridescent, first tergum rather narrow, without tubercle. Length 12.0 mm. From all material studied by me, the diagnosis given by SAUSSURE fits the best Scolia laeviceps SMITH, 1855 from Hong Kong. There exists no evidence, however, that the SAUSSURE's material came from there. He described variants with the clypeus and eye orbits partly red. One of these is being selected as a neotype. Lacosia pygmaea SAUSSURE (Figs 101-102) Scolia (Lacosi) pygmaea SAUSSURE, 1858, Ann. Soc. ent. France 3 (6): 217, male. Locus classicus: "Nova Hollandia, Swan River, Domine DREWSEN". Male. Length 14.0 mm, length of fore wing 11.0 mm. Body black; ocular sinus, a narrow stripe along outer eye orbits, two ill-defined spots on sides of clypeus and knees of fore leg are reddish-yellow. Mandibles, apical border of clypeus and antennae red. Legs and apical half of abdominal segments piceous. Basal half of abdominal terga bluish iridescent. Vestiture white, to soiled yellowish-white on head, pronotum, propleura and fore leg; hairs of thoracic dorsum, abdomen, wings, middle and hind legs black. Wings black, with strongly metallic violaceous reflection; veins dark brown. Hind tibial spurs piceous. Head circular in outline, as high as wide. Inner eye orbits slightly diverging above, deeply sinuate within. Clypeus convex, delicately alutaceous, sparsely punctate above, densely on the sides, middle of the disc devoid of punctures. Mid clypeal lobe slightly convex, apical rim is separated by a transverse row of large setigerous punctures. Supraclypeal triangle impunctate mesally, punctate on the sides. Lower front sparsely punctate, interspaces as wide as punctures themselves. Front without transverse furrow, with a narrow longitudinal furrow reaching from the supraclypeal triangle to anterior ocellus. Upper front and vertex sparsely punctate. Ocello-ocular line 1.5 times diameter of anterior ocellus. Inner margin of mandible with
