Allorhynchium chinense (de Saussure, 1862)

Nguyen, Lien Thi Phuong, Nguyen, Anh D., Tran, Ngat Thi, Nguyen, Manh Thanh & Engel, Michael S., 2023, The potter wasp genus Allorhynchium from Vietnam, with descriptions of three new species and a new country record (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Eumeninae), ZooKeys 1166, pp. 1-32 : 1

Allorhynchium chinense (de Saussure, 1862)

Rhynchium chinense de Saussure, 1862: 186.

Allorhynchium chinense (de Saussure); van der Vecht 1963: 60; Nguyen et al. 2014: 8.

Material examined.

Taiwan. 1♀ 1♂, Shihtyutou Nantou Hsien, 10.x.1996 [10 October 1996]. C.C. Luo leg. ; 1♂, Shihtyutou Nantou Hsien, 8.viii.1996 [8 August 1996] [SYC] .

Remarks.

Although Giordani Soika (1986) recorded this species from Vietnam, we have been unable to examine any specimens from the country. Despite considerable sampling of the genus from throughout Vietnam and the large number of specimens examined, we have not identified any belonging to A. chinense . A new species described herein as A. setosus (vide infra) is quite similar to A. chinense , as discussed under that species, and it is possible that Giordani Soika’s (1986) material belongs to that species. As we have not been able to source material from which he based his determinations, we therefore continue to list A. chinense here pending future work. For the moment the status of this species in Vietnam is dubious.

Distribution.

China: Sichuan, Yunnan, Hong Kong, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guangzhou, Macao, Jiangxi, Shanghai, Henan, Fujian; Taiwan;? Vietnam;? Philippines: Mindanao.