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New distribuEonal record of Scolia (Discolia) binotata binotata Fabricius (Hymenoptera: Scoliidae) from Assam and Tripura, IndiaP. Girish KumarZoological Survey of India, M-­‐ Block, New Alipore, Kolkata, West Bengal 700 053, IndiaE-­‐mail: k_p_girish@yahoo.co.inDuring studies of the collec,ons of Scoliidae present in the Hymenoptera Sec,on of Zoological Survey of India, Kol-­kata (NZSI), I found two new records of the taxon Scolia (Discolia) binotata binotata Fabricius: one from Assam and one from Tripura. Jonathan & Gupta (2000) listed the sco-­liid species from Tripura and Gupta & Jonathan (2003) published on the fauna of the Scoliidae of the Indian subregion. Kumar (2009) reported further distribu,onal record of this species from Andhra Pradesh. This short communica,on is intended to report the extended distri-­bu,on of this taxon to Assam and Tripura.Scolia (Discolia) binotata binotata FabriciusScolia binotata Fabricius,1804, Syst. Peiz: 244. Male, Tran-­quebar (Type in Copenhagen Museum).Scolia (Discolia) cucullata Bingham,1897, Fauna Bri,sh India, Hymn., 1:82. Female, Sikkim, West Bengal (Types in Bri,sh Museum). Scolia quadripustulata var. binotata Fabricius: Bing-­ham,1908, Rec. Indian Mus., 2(4): 352, Male, Sri Lanka. Scolia (Discolia) binotata binotata Fabricius: Krombe-­in,1978, Smithsonian Contr. Zool., 283: 41-­‐ 43. Female, Male; Sri Lanka.Material examined: 1 male, 23-­‐24.v.1979, Dehangi, N. Cachar, Assam, India, Coll. S.B. Roy & Party, In NZSI, 10098/H3; 1 male, 25.v.1978, Ambassa, Tripura, India, Coll. A. Issar, In NZSI, 10099/H3.Diagnosis: Male. Length 11-­‐17 mm. Body black, usually third and fourth tergites with paired, rounded, light red spots, some,mes only third or fourth tergites with such spots, rarely gaster en,rely black. The males from eastern Himalaya and northeast India having, some,mes, red marks on frons, vertex and scapula. Ves,ture black mixed with white on head and thorax anteriorly, legs and ventral side of abdomen predominantly white. Wings dark brown at base and paler at apices with bluish purple effulgence.Distribu^on: India: Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Delhi, Karnataka, Kerala, Manipur, Rajasthan, Sik-­kim, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, UIarakhand and West Bengal. Sri Lanka.Remarks: This is the first report of S. (D.) binotata binotata from Assam and Tripura.References:Bingham, C.T. (1897). The fauna of Bri3sh India, including Ceylon and Burma: Hymenoptera, 1 (wasps and bees), 579 pages, 4 plates, 189 figures.Bingham, C.T. (1908). Notes on aculeate Hymenoptera in the Indian Museum. Part 1. Records of the Indian Museum, 2(4): 347-­‐368.Kumar, P.G. (2009). Taxonomic notes on hairy wasps (Hymenop-­tera: Scoliidae) of Andhra Pradesh, India. Records of the Zoologi-­cal Survey of India, 109 (Part-­‐ 1): 97-­‐103.Gupta, S.K. & J.K. Jonathan (2003). Fauna of India and the adja-­cent countries, Hymenoptera: Scoliidae, Zoological Survey of India: 1-­‐277.Jonathan, J.K. & S.K. Gupta (2000). State Fauna Series 7, Fauna of Tripura-­‐ Part 3 (Insects), Zoological Survey of India: i-­‐iv, 1-­‐390.AcknowledgementThe author is grateful to the Director, Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata for providing facili,es and encouragements.Newsletter of the Invertebrate Conservation and Information Network of South Asia (ICINSA) and Invertebrate SpecialInterest Group (ISIG) of Conservation Breeding Specialist Group, South Asia. ISIGcoordinated by Dr. B.A. Daniel, Scientist, Zoo Outreach OrganisationEditor: B.A. DanielEditorial Advisor: Sally Walker & Sanjay MolurBUGS `R' ALL is published by ZOO and CBSG South Asia as a service to invertebrate conservation community.This issue is published with the financial support of Zoological Society of London.For communication contact:The Editor, ZOO/CBSG, S. Asia officeP. Box. 1683, Peelamedu, Coimbatore, 641 004, TN, India.Ph: +91 422 2561 087; Fax: 2563 269; Email: badaniel@zooreach.orgBugs R A! No. 17 March 2011 37