Scolomus Townes & Townes, 1950

Scolomus Townes & Townes, 1950 View in CoL View at ENA

Scolomus Townes & Townes, 1950: 420 View in CoL . Type species: Scolomus viridis Townes and Townes View in CoL , by original designation. Apolophus Townes, 1971: 111 . Type species: Apolophus borealis Townes , by original designation.

Diagnosis. Head elongate, malar space exceptionally long, 1.20–1.80× basal mandibular width; clypeus large, subquadrate, supra-clypeal suture weakly impressed to absent, thus in most species with face and clypeus forming approximately uniform smooth plane; occipital carina ventrally incomplete; mandible slender, lower tooth 0.50– 1.00× as long as upper tooth. Fore wing with areolet rhomboid to pentagonal; pterostigma broad and triangular, maximum length 2.30–3.00× its maximum width; hind wing with basal abscissa of vein M + Cu 1 strongly arched; distal abscissa of vein Cu 1 joining vein cu-a far closer to vein 1 A than vein M. First metasomal tergite with anterior median depression bordered laterally by raised sides, glymma deep, almost meeting at midline and often separated only by translucent partition; female hypopygium large, arched, but not folded medioventrally; ovipositor slender, slightly upcurved and lacking dorsal subapical notch.

Distribution. Widely distributed in the Holarctic and Neotropical regions, including the Andean biogeographic zone ( sensu Morrone, 2015) but Townes stated he had examined undescribed species of Apolophus from Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Ecuador.

Included species. S. borealis Townes (Nearctic, West Palearctic); S. magellanicus Walkley (Andean) ; S. talamanca Gauld & Sithole (Neotropical) ; S. viridis Townes (Andean) .