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Vespa binghami du Buysson 1905
- 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 binghami du Buysson
Figs. 2c and 21
Vespa binghami du Buysson, 1905 (1904): 523. Lectotype female (designated by van der Vecht, 1959: 210); Myanmar: Toungoo, ‘Taungoo Hills’ (PARIS).
Vespa suprunenkoi Birula, 1925 (1924): 92. Lectotype female (designated by Kurzenko, 2004: 197); Korea: Sakhalin Is. (ST. PETERSBURG).
Distribution. India, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, China, Russia, Korea. Discussion. This is a high altitude species, found between 200 m and 2,000 m (Archer 1999). Zhang (1989) reported the presence of Vespa binghami in Miocene deposits in Shandong, China, but this identification needs to be verified.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Vespidae
- Genus
- Vespa
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- du Buysson
- Species
- binghami
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Vespa binghami Buysson, 1905 sec. Smith-Pardo, Carpenter & Kimsey, 2020
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.
- Zhang, J. F. 1989. Fossil insects from Shanwang, Shandong, China. Shandong Science and Technology, Shandong, China, Pub. 551 pp.