10.5281/zenodo.1258043
https://zenodo.org/records/1258043
oai:zenodo.org:1258043
P. Girish Kumar
P. Girish Kumar
Western Ghats Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Kozhikode, Kerala–673006, India.
James M. Carpenter
James M. Carpenter
Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, NY 10024, USA.
A taxonomic review of the genus Vespula Thomson (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Vespinae) from the Indian subcontinent
Zenodo
2018
Vespula, review, Indian subcontinent, new record, ethology
2018-06-03
10.5281/zenodo.1258042
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The genus Vespula Thomson, 1869, is reviewed from the Indian subcontinent. New synonymy is Vespa orbata var. aurulenta du Buysson, 1905, = Vespula structor (Smith, 1870). The following species are newly recorded from various states of India as follows: V. nursei Archer, 1981, from Delhi, Sikkim and Uttarakhand; V. orbata (du Buysson, 1902) from Nagaland; V. flaviceps (Smith, 1870) from West Bengal; V. germanica (Fabricius, 1793) from Himachal Pradesh; V. structor (Smith, 1870) from Arunachal Pradesh; V. vulgaris (Linnaeus, 1758) from Himachal Pradesh. Parasitic association of Strepsiptera is observed in one worker specimen of V. flaviceps. A modified key to species of the Indian subcontinent is provided.