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Vespa fumida van der Vecht
- 1. USDA-APHIS-PPQ, Science and Technology (S & T), Sacramento, CA,
- 2. Department of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY,
- 3. Bohart Museum of Entomology, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, and
Description
Vespa fumida van der Vecht
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Vespa variabilis du Buysson, 1905 (1904): 522. Lectotype female (designated by van der Vecht, 1959: 228); China: Mou-pin (PARIS). Nec Vespa variabilis Fabricius, 1781.
Vespa variabilis fumida van der Vecht, 1959: 228. Holotype female; India: ‘ British Bootan’, Padong’ (PARIS).
Distribution. India, Bhutan, Nepal, Myanmar, China (Sichuan, Yunnan, Hubei, Fujian).
Discussion. Vespa fumida is found at high altitudes between 600 m and 3,000 m across northeastern India into China (Archer 1999). Otherwise, little is known about its biology.
Notes
Published as part of Smith-Pardo, Allan H., Carpenter, James M. & Kimsey, Lynn, 2020, The Diversity of Hornets in the Genus Vespa (Hymenoptera: Vespidae; Vespinae), Their Importance and Interceptions in the United States, pp. 1-27 in Insect Systematics and Diversity 4 (3) on page 15, DOI: 10.1093/isd/ixaa006, http://zenodo.org/record/3826921
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Vespidae
- Genus
- Vespa
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- van der Vecht
- Species
- fumida
- Taxon rank
- species
References
- Archer, M. E. 1999. Taxonomy, distribution and nesting biology of Vespa binghami, V. basalis, V. variabilis, V. fervida, V. luctuosa, V. multimaculata and V. bellicosa. Entomol. Monthly Mag. 135: 43 - 50.