Ancistrocerus claripennis Thomson, 1874

Else, George R., Bolton, Barry & Broad, Gavin R., 2016, Checklist of British and Irish Hymenoptera - aculeates (Apoidea, Chrysidoidea and Vespoidea), Biodiversity Data Journal 4, pp. 8050-8050 : 8050

Ancistrocerus claripennis Thomson, 1874

quadratus (Panzer, 1799, Vespa ) nom. dub.

Distribution

England

Notes

Although this species has been referred to as Ancistrocerus quadratus in British faunistic works (e.g. Richards 1980, Archer 2003, Archer 2014), the type of Vespa quadrata Panzer is lost and its identification as this species, whilst probable, is not certain ( Blüthgen 1959, van der Vecht and Fischer 1972), therefore claripennis is the name most usually used for this species (e.g. in Fauna Europaea: Mitroiu et al. 2004, accessed 2016).