5. Colpa tartara (de Saussure, 1880)

Trielis tartara de Saussure, 1880: 26, ♀, Russia (type in Zoological Institute, St. Petersburg).

Campsoscolia (Crioscolia) tartara tartara Bradley, 1950: 432 .

Crioscolia (Crioscolia) tartara: Betrem, 1972: 65 .

Colpa (Crioscolia) tartara: Lelej & Mokrousov, 2017: 12; Osten, 2005: 23.

Scolia (Trielis) mongolica Morawitz, 1889: 116 . (= Trielis konowi Gribodo, 1895)

? Campsoscolia mongolica: Betrem, 1941: 50 .

Campsoscolia (Campsoscolia) mongolica: Bradley, 1950: 433 .

Colpa (Crioscolia) tartara mongolica: Osten, 2005: 23 .

Distribution. China (Neimenggu, Xinjiang); Afghanistan, Armenia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Russian, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.

Notes. The male from China in RMNH identified as C. mongolica by Betrem (Fig. 1) has the head missing and differs from the nominate C. tartara (Fig. 2) because of the robust marginal cell of the fore wing (elongate in C. tartara); the medially interrupted yellow bands on the first two metasomal tergites (broad and continuous in C. tartara); and strongly constricted first metasomal tergite (less constricted in C. tartara).

Colpa mongolica was treated as a subspecies of C. tartara (Osten 2005) or as a full synonym (Lelej & Mokrousov 2017); the reported flat surface of the area between the antennal sockets (“spatium frontale”) for C. mongolica is apparently a character too variable to be of any use to differentiate the species.