Vespa tropica ( Linnaeus, 1758 )
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3914.5.1 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6095225 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/038A3B2F-A70A-8E16-FF24-2F86FC5D8E08 |
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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.
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Vespa tropica ( Linnaeus, 1758 )
Siddiqui, Junaid Ali, Bodlah, Imran, Carpenter, James M., Naeem, Muhammad, Ahmad, Munir & Bodlah, Muhammad Adnan 2015 |
Vespa tropica cebuana
Kojima 1984: 260 |
Vespa tropica leefmansi
Vecht 1957: 19 |
Vespa tropica trimeres
Vecht 1957: 19 |
Vespa tropica
Bequaert 1936: 335 |
Vespa tropica
Bequaert 1936: 336 |
Vespa affinis
Perez 1910: 8 |
Vespa rubricans Pérez, 1910 : 10
Perez 1910: 10 |
Vespa eulemoides
Buysson 1905: 491 |
Vespa unicolor
Smith 1863: 44 |
Vespa deusta
Saint 1836: 506 |
Vespa
Christ 1791: 216 |
Vespa cincta
Fabricius 1775: 362 |