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Vespa crabro Linnaeus 1758

Description

Vespa crabro Linnaeus, 1758

MATERIAL. Russia: Kunashir Island, Andreevskii kordon, 1-22.X 2022, 6 ♂, 11 workers.

DISTRIBUTION. Originally transpalearctic species, but introduced into North America: Canada, USA (Carpernter, Kojima, 1997) and recently extended to Guatemala (European hornet, 2023). In the Pacific Islands it was known formerly from Sakhalin and Japan.

NOTES. The species was collected mainly by bait traps together with similar and more rare Vespa simillima Smith, 1868.

Notes

Published as part of Dubatolov, V. V. & Zinchenko, V. K., 2024, New records of insects (Heteroptera, Coleoptera, Neuroptera, Hymenoptera, Diptera) from Kunashir Island, pp. 14-20 in Far Eastern Entomologist 494 on page 17, DOI: 10.25221/fee.494.2, http://zenodo.org/record/10945746

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Biodiversity

Event date
2022-10-01
Family
Vespidae
Genus
Vespa
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hymenoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Species
crabro
Taxon rank
species
Verbatim event date
2022-10-01/22
Taxonomic concept label
Vespa crabro Linnaeus, 1758 sec. Dubatolov & Zinchenko, 2024