Ancistrocerus longispinosus (de Saussure, 1855)

Cassar, Thomas, Mifsud, David & Selis, Marco, 2022, The potter wasps of the Maltese Islands (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Eumeninae), Journal of Hymenoptera Research 90, pp. 201-212 : 201

Ancistrocerus longispinosus (de Saussure, 1855)

Material examined.

Malta • 1♀, Żebbuġ, 7 May 2020, T. Cassar leg. ; 1♀, Żebbuġ, 14 May 2020, T. Cassar leg.; 1♀, Żebbuġ, 16 May 2020, T. Cassar leg.; 1♀, Żebbuġ, 20 May 2020, T. Cassar leg.; 1♀, Żebbuġ, May 2020, T. Cassar leg.

Notes.

All the above cited material corresponds to the subspecies Ancistrocerus longispinosus longispinosus (de Saussure, 1855). The first record of this species in Malta ( Schembri 1980) was published as Ancistocerus longispinosus hellenicus ( Blüthgen, 1957) a taxon which is no longer considered to be valid ( Gusenleitner 1995a). A. longispinosus is widely distributed across southern Europe, from the Iberian Peninsula to European Turkey, and in Northern Africa (Carpenter, unpublished). Mature larvae were described by Tormos et al. (1998).