Vespa velutina Lepeletier

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 : 519-520

publication ID

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

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:64BD9B4F-97A5-4D1E-84FA-EF3947FAD569

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6095227

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/038A3B2F-A70A-8E17-FF24-2BDDFA9F8932

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scientific name

Vespa velutina Lepeletier
status

 

Vespa velutina Lepeletier View in CoL de Saint Fargeau, 1836

( Figs 35 View FIGURE 35 a–b)

Vespa velutina View in CoL “ De Haan” Lepeletier de Saint Fargeau, 1836: 507, ♀, [ Indonesia] “ Inde: Java” (Torino?).

Vespa auraria Smith, 1852: 46 View in CoL , pl. VIII, fig. 8, ♀, “Northern India ” (London, Oxford?).

Vespa crabro View in CoL var. immaculata Morawitz, 1889: 161 , ♀, [ China] “Kansu. Nanpin.” (St. Petersburg), nom. praeocc., nec. Vespa immaculata Gmelin, 1790 View in CoL .

Vespa fruhstorferi Stadelmann, 1894: 89 View in CoL , ♀, [ Indonesia] “in den alpinen Theilen von West-Java auf dem Gunung-Gede ... in einer Höhe von 8000 Fuss” (Berlin?).

Vespa velutina View in CoL var. ardens du Buysson, 1905: 550, ♀, ♂, [ Indonesia] “Lombok, Sapit (2000’ ...); I. Sumbawa, près Java” (Wien, Budapest, München, Paris).

Vespa auraria View in CoL var. nigrithorax du Buysson, 1905: 553, ♀, ♂, [ India] “Dardjiling” (lectotype ♀ Paris).

Vespa velutina View in CoL var. Celebensis Pérez, 1910: 12, ♀, [ Indonesia] “Bua-Kraeng (Sud-Célèbes)” (Paris).

Vespa velutina View in CoL var. Megei Pérez, 1910: 13, ♀, “Koueï-Tchéou ( Chine centrale)” (Paris).

Vespa Mongolica View in CoL var. divergens Pérez, 1910: 16 , ♀, [ Malaysia] “Perak” (lectotype Paris).

Vespa flavitarsus Sonan, 1929: 137 (key), 142, ♀, [ Taiwan] “Taiko-san (Kagi)” (coll. M. Kato).

Vespa velutina sumbana View in CoL van der Vecht, 1957: 34 (key), 40, ♀, ♂, [ Indonesia] “Kananggar, E. Sumba, 700 m ” (holotype ♀ Leiden).

Vespa velutina variana View in CoL van der Vecht, 1957: 35 (key), 37, ♀, “North Siam... Doi Hua Mot, 3000’“ (Leiden).

Vespa velutina karnyi View in CoL van der Vecht, 1957: 35 (key), 38, ♀, ♂, [ Indonesia] “Bandar Buru, Deli” (holotype ♀ Leiden). Vespa velutina timorensis View in CoL van der Vecht, 1957: 35 (key), 40, ♀, [ Indonesia] “Mollo, 1350 m, Timor” (Basel); also from another locality on Timor.

Vespa velutina floresiana View in CoL van der Vecht, 1957: 35 (key), 40, ♀, [ Indonesia] “Labuan Badjo, Fores” (Leiden). Vespa velutina pruthii van der Vecht, 1959: 228, ♀, [ India] “Kashmir, Srinagar” (Calcutta).

Material examined. Rawalpindi, 13.ix.11, 5♀, 10.ix.12, 2♀, 22.xi.12, 7♀, 2♂, 19.ix.12, 6♀, 23.v.12, 12♀, 3♂, 14.iv.12, 3♀; Islamabad, 1.iv.12, 4♀; Murree, 14.x.12, 4♀; Attock, 20.v.12, 1♂, 26.v.12, 6♀; Jhelum, 25.ix.12, 5♀; Chakwal, 16.iv.12, 7♀. 1♂.

Distribution. Pakistan, Bhutan, Vietnam, China, Indonesia, Taiwan Laos, Thailand, Malaysia, Myanmar and India; introduced into France, Spain and Portugal (Carpenter & Kojima 1997, Dvořák 2007, Mahmood et al. 2012).

Comments. These specimens were compared with the published description by Mahmood et al. (2012). This species can be recognized on basis of following characters: first and second metasomal segments with apical yellow band and 4th to 6th segments are golden. New locality records have been provided for this species.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Vespidae

Genus

Vespa

Loc

Vespa velutina Lepeletier

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

Vespa velutina sumbana

Vecht 1957: 34
1957
Loc

Vespa velutina variana

Vecht 1957: 35
1957
Loc

Vespa flavitarsus

Sonan 1929: 137
1929
Loc

Vespa velutina

Perez 1910: 12
1910
Loc

Vespa velutina

Perez 1910: 13
1910
Loc

Vespa

Perez 1910: 16
1910
Loc

Vespa velutina

Buysson 1905: 550
1905
Loc

Vespa auraria

Buysson 1905: 553
1905
Loc

Vespa fruhstorferi

Stadelmann 1894: 89
1894
Loc

Vespa crabro

Morawitz 1889: 161
1889
Loc

Vespa auraria

Smith 1852: 46
1852
Loc

Vespa velutina

Saint 1836: 507
1836
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