Vespa velutina Lepeletier

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 : 30-31

Vespa velutina Lepeletier de Saint Fargeau, 1836

Figs 4 (a–d)

Female: Body length 15.5–20.5 mm (n = 33), fore wing length 14–19 mm (n = 33).

Material examined. PAKISTAN: Gilgit-Baltistan: Diamar, 1 Ψ, 26.vii. 1987, Gilgit, 1 Ψ, 28.vii. 1987, Abro; Gilgit, 3 Ψ, 29.vii. 1987, Chilas, 1 Ψ, 4.viii. 1987, Nomal, 1 Ψ, 24.ix. 1987, Afzal ( PMNH). Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa: Swat, Charbagh, 1 Ψ, 29.vii. 1986, Afzal; Shangla, 2 Ψ, 09.viii. 1988, Fiaz; 2 Ψ, 09.viii. 1988, Abro; Dir, 1 Ψ, 13.viii. 1987, Afzal, 1 Ψ, 13.viii. 1987, Abro; Shougran, 1 Ψ, 13.vi. 2010, Garihabibullah, 9 Ψ, 15.vi. 2010, Jaba, 2 Ψ, 15.vi. 2010, Mishkat Ullah ( PMNH); Abbottabad, 1 Ψ, 18.iv. 1963, Khan; Nathia gali, 1 Ψ, 24.ix. 1966, Khan ( PFI). Punjab: Islamabad, 1 Ψ, 29.x. 1989, 1Ψ, 31.x. 1989, 1Ψ, 12.iii. 1990, 1Ψ, 13.iii. 1990, Riaz; 1 Ψ, 29.x. 1989, 1Ψ, 07.xi. 1989, 1Ψ, 13.iii. 1990, 1Ψ, 15.xi. 2006, 1Ψ, 17.v. 2007, Fida; 1 Ψ, 20.viii. 1982, 1Ψ, 14.iv. 1987, Abro ( PMNH).

Distribution. Bhutan, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Pakistan, Thailand, Taiwan, and Vietnam ( Carpenter & Kojima 1997, Dvořák 2007).

Figures

FIGURE 4. Vespa velutina. a, habitus; b, head, frontal view; c, head and mesosoma, dorsal view; d, metasoma, dorsal view.