Eumenes latreillei

Carpenter, James M., 2023, A Catalogue of the Pacific Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), Zootaxa 5315 (5), pp. 401-455 : 405

latreillei petiolare (Schulz)

Eumenes latreillei petiolaris Schulz 1905 [ 1904]: 217, female—“Finschhafen in Deutsch-Neuguinea, ... Insel Woodlark” (Dresden).— Bequaert, 1926b: 562 (syn. of Eumenes maxillosus var. latreillei de Saussure ); 1928b: 165.— Williams 1948: 200 (Hawaii).— Weber 1948: 206, 208, 216 (on a ship from South Pacific Islands to Oahu; ethology).— Swezey 1948: 670 (prey: Anacamptodes moth).— Townes 1950: 2 (earliest capture in Oahu is 1944).— Swezey, 1950: 4 (nest), 8, 13, fig. of nest, 15, 17 (Maui).—van Zwaluwenburg 1950: 16 (Molokai).— Swezey 1951: 220–221. fig. 1 (nest).— Pemberton 1952: 361 (Hawaii); 1956: 13 (Canton Island).—van der Vecht, 1960: 11 (many localities in New Guinea; Admiralty Is.; Trobriand Is.; Solomon Is. ; Hawaii).

Eumenes “? xanthura de Saussure ”; Cameron 1906: 64 (New Guinea).

Eumenes pyriformis petiolaris ; Maehler, 1947a: 22 (Oahu).— Townes 1947: 105 (Oahu).— Catley 1966: 13 (predator of Tiracola plagiata (Walker)) .

Delta latreillei petiolaris ; Giordani Soika & Kojima 1988: 182 ( Papua New Guinea).— Nishida 1992: 182 (petiolare; Kauai, Oahu, Molokai, Maui, Hawaii); 1994: 172 (petiolare; Kauai; Oahu; Molokai; Maui; Hawaii); 1997: 148 (petiolare; Kauai; Oahu; Molokai; Maui; Hawaii); 2002: 181 (petiolare; Kauai; Oahu; Molokai; Maui; Hawaii).— Evenhuis 2007: 29 ( Fiji).— Carpenter 2008: 6 (petiolare; Hawaiian records).— Nugroho et al. 2012 [2011]: 87 (petiolare; list).— Dal Pos et al. 2022: 13 (petiolare; specs.).— Carpenter 2023: 3 (petiolare; distr.).

Distr.: Indonesia: Papua, West Papua; Papua New Guinea, including Admiralty Islands, Trobriand Islands; Solomon Islands ; Kiribati; adventive in Hawaii; Fiji.