Vespa tropica ( Linnaeus, 1758 )

Siddiqui, Junaid Ali, Bodlah, Imran, Carpenter, James M., Naeem, Muhammad, Ahmad, Munir & Bodlah, Muhammad Adnan, 2015, Vespidae (Hymenoptera) of the Pothwar region of Punjab, Pakistan, Zootaxa 3914 (5), pp. 501-524 : 519

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3914.5.1

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6095225

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Vespa tropica ( Linnaeus, 1758 )
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Vespa tropica ( Linnaeus, 1758) View in CoL

( Fig. 33 View FIGURES 32, 33 )

Sphex tropica Linnaeus, 1758: 571 View in CoL View Cited Treatment , “in Indiis” (holotype ♀ Uppsala).

Vespa cincta Fabricius, 1775: 362 View in CoL , [ India] “ad littora Malabarica” (Kobenhavn), nom. praeocc., nec Vespa cincta Drury, 1773 View in CoL , nec Vespa cincta De Geer 1773 View in CoL .

Vespa Crabro View in CoL tenebrionis Christ, 1791: 216, pl. 18, fig. 4 (destroyed).

Vespa deusta Lepeletier de Saint Fargeau, 1836: 506, ♀, “Patrie inconnue” (lectotype Torino).

Vespa unicolor Smith, 1863: 44 View in CoL , ♀, [ Indonesia] “Bouru” (Oxford).

Vespa eulemoides du Buysson, 1905: 491 (key), 530, ♀, [ India] “ Ile Andaman: port de Blair” (Genova).

Vespa affinis View in CoL var. trisignata Pérez, 1910: 8 , ♀, [ Indonesia] “Timor” (Paris).

Vespa rubricans Pérez, 1910: 10 View in CoL , ♀, “Lindi ( Afrique orientale allemande)” (lectotype Paris).

Vespa tropica View in CoL var. anthracina Bequaert, 1936: 335 (key), 341, ♀, ♂, “ Philippine Islands: Sibuwan” (holotype ♀ Washington).

Vespa tropica View in CoL var. haematodes Bequaert, 1936: 336 (key), 338, ♀, ♂ - “ India: Kooloo” (holotype ♀ Cambridge).

Vespa tropica leefmansi View in CoL van der Vecht, 1957: 19, ♀, ♂, [ Indonesia] “Solok, Padang, Sumatra” (holotype ♀ Leiden).

Vespa tropica trimeres View in CoL van der Vecht, 1957: 19 (key), 22, ♀, [ Indonesia] “Palu, West Celebes” (Leiden).

Vespa tropica cebuana Kojima & Reyes, 1984: 260 View in CoL , ♀, [ Philippines] “Cebu City” (Tokyo).

Material examined. Attock, 20.x.12, 1♀, 26.05.xii, 2♀; Rawalpindi, 23.xi.11, 3♀, 1♂, 07.vi.12, 1♀; Chakwal, 16,vi,12, 2♀.

Distribution. Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Cambodia, China, Thailand, India, Papua New Guinea, Laos, Malaysia, Nepal, Philippines, Vietnam, Myanmar (Carpenter & Kojima 1997, Dvořák 2007, Mahmood et al. 2012).

Comments. Collected specimens were compared with Mahmood et al. (2012). This species can be distinguished on the basis of followings characters: second metasomal segment completely orange and further segments are black. New locality records have been provided for this species.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Vespidae

Genus

Vespa

Loc

Vespa tropica ( Linnaeus, 1758 )

Siddiqui, Junaid Ali, Bodlah, Imran, Carpenter, James M., Naeem, Muhammad, Ahmad, Munir & Bodlah, Muhammad Adnan 2015
2015
Loc

Vespa tropica cebuana

Kojima 1984: 260
1984
Loc

Vespa tropica leefmansi

Vecht 1957: 19
1957
Loc

Vespa tropica trimeres

Vecht 1957: 19
1957
Loc

Vespa tropica

Bequaert 1936: 335
1936
Loc

Vespa tropica

Bequaert 1936: 336
1936
Loc

Vespa affinis

Perez 1910: 8
1910
Loc

Vespa rubricans Pérez, 1910 : 10

Perez 1910: 10
1910
Loc

Vespa eulemoides

Buysson 1905: 491
1905
Loc

Vespa unicolor

Smith 1863: 44
1863
Loc

Vespa deusta

Saint 1836: 506
1836
Loc

Vespa

Christ 1791: 216
1791
Loc

Vespa cincta

Fabricius 1775: 362
1775
Loc

Sphex tropica

Linnaeus 1758: 571
1758
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