Vespa tropica ( Linnaeus, 1758 )

Mahmood, Khalid, Ullah, Mishkat, Aziz, Abdul, Hasan, Syed Azhar & Inayatullah, Mian, 2012, To the knowledge of Vespidae (Hymenoptera) of Pakistan, Zootaxa 3318, pp. 26-50 : 30

Vespa tropica ( Linnaeus, 1758)

Figs 3 (a–d)

Female: Body length 18.5–25.5 mm (n = 8), fore wing length 18.5– 27 mm (n = 8).

Material examined. PAKISTAN: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: Abbottabad, 1Ψ, 19.viii.2008, Peshawar, 1Ψ, 29.viii.2008, Aziz ( AUPKP). Punjab: Islamabad, 1Ψ, 30.ix.1981, Fiaz; 1Ψ, 06.x.1981, Afzal; 1Ψ, 25.vii.2002, 1Ψ, 18.iv.2007, 1Ψ, 18–26. vi.2007, 1 Ψ, 20.vii.2007, 1Ψ, 06.ix.2008, 1Ψ, 29.viii.2008, 2Ψ, 07.vii.2009, Fida ( PMNH).

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

Figures

FIGURE 3. Vespa tropica. a, habitus; b, head, frontal view; c, head and mesosoma, dorsal view; d, metasoma, dorsal view.