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Vespula vulgaris

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288) Vespula vulgaris (Linnaeus, 1758)

Vespa vulgaris Linnaeus, 1758: 572. Type data: Lectotype female, LSL. Type locality: “in Europa”.

Vespa sexcincta Panzer, 1799: 1.

Vespa vulgaris var. pseudogermanica Stolfa, 1932: 26.

Vespa mixta “Schenck ” Edwards, 1980: 363.

Vespula rufosignata Eck, 1998: 299.

Vespula vulgaris vetus Eck, 1999: 309, 329.

Vespula yunlongensis Dong and Wang, 2003: 212.

Distribution. India: Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir. Elsewhere: Albania; Argentina [introduced]; Australia [introduced]; Austria; Azerbaijan; Belarus; Belgium; Bosnia & Herzegovina; Bulgaria; Chile [introduced]; China; Croatia; Czech Republic; Denmark; Estonia; Finland; France; Georgia; Germany; Greece; Hungary; Iceland; Iran; Ireland [introduced]; Israel; Italy; Japan; Kazakhstan; Korea; Kyrgyzstan; Latvia; Liechtenstein; Lithuania; Luxemburg, Macedonia; Mexico; Moldova; Mongolia; Netherlands; New Zealand; Norway; Pakistan; Poland; Portugal; Romania; Russia; Serbia; Slovakia; Slovenia; South Africa; Spain; Sweden; Switzerland; Syria; Tahiti [introduced]; Turkey; U.K.; Ukraine. (Archer 1989, Das & Gupta 1989, Carpenter & Kojima 1997, Dvořák & Castro 2007, Bleidorn et al. 2016, Dorji et al. 2017 a, Rafi et al. 2017, Girish Kumar & Carpenter 2018, Fateryga 2018).

Notes

Published as part of Gawas, Sandesh M., Kumar, Girish, Pannure, Arati, Gupta, Ankita & Carpenter, James M., 2020, An annotated distributional checklist of Vespidae (Hymenoptera: Vespoidea) of India, pp. 1-87 in Zootaxa 4784 (1) on pages 68-69, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4784.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3862319

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Taxonomic treatment: 10.5281/zenodo.3922704 (DOI)
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Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.4784.1.1 (DOI)
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Biodiversity

Family
Vespidae
Genus
Vespula
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hymenoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Species
vulgaris
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Vespula vulgaris (Linnaeus, 1758) sec. Gawas, Kumar, Pannure, Gupta & Carpenter, 2020

References

  • Linnaeus, C. (1758) Systema naturae per regna tria naturae: secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. 10 th Edition. impensis. Beer, G. E., Lipsiae, 823 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 542
  • Panzer, G. W. F. (1799) Faunae Insectorum Germanicae. Heft 63. Felsecker, Nuremberg, 62 pp.
  • Edwards, R. (1980) Social Wasps. Rentokil Limited, East Grinstead, 385 pp.
  • Eck, R. (1998) Eine nueu Art der Vespula vulgaris gruppe aus Asien (Insecta; Hymenoptera; Vespidae). Reichenbachia, 32 (43), 299 - 302.
  • Eck, R. (1999) Zur Populationsgleirung und Zoogeographie von Vespula vulgaris Factoren der intraspecifichen Merkmalsanderungen (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Entomologische Abhandlungen, Staatliches Museum fur Tierkunde, Dresden, 58, 309 - 342.
  • Archer, M. E. (1989) A key to the world species of the Vespinae (Hymenoptera). Research Monographs of the College of Ripon & York St John, 2, 1 - 41.
  • Das, B. P. & Gupta, V. K. (1989) The social wasps of India and the adjacent countries. Oriental Insects Monograph, 11, 1 - 292. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00305316.1989.11835532
  • Carpenter, J. M. & Kojima, J. I. (1997) Checklist of the species in the subfamily Vespinae (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Natural history bulletin of Ibaraki University, 1, 51 - 92.
  • Dvorak, L. & Castro, L. (2007) New and noteworthy records of vespid wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) from the Palaearctic region. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae, 47, 229 - 236.
  • Bleidorn, C., Gerth, M., Hopfe, C., May, M., Mayer, R., Muller, M., Rudolph, A., Schaffer, S., Wolf, R. & Bernhard, D. (2016) Die Stechimmenfauna (Hymenoptera, Aculeata) der Halde Trages bei Leipzig. Ampulex, 8, 6 - 15.
  • Dorji, P., Klein, W. & Nidup, T. (2017 a) Taxonomic study of social vespid wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Vespinae & Polistinae) in Bhutan. Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics, 3 (2), 91 - 104.
  • Rafi, M. A., Carpenter, J. M., Qasim, M., Shehzad, A., Zia, A., Khan, M. R., Mastoi, M. I., Naz, F., Ilyas, M., Shah, M. & Bhatti, A. R. (2017) The vespid fauna of Pakistan. Zootaxa, 4362 (1), 1 - 28. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4362.1.1
  • Girish Kumar, P. & Carpenter, J. M. (2018) A taxonomic review of the genus Vespula Thomson (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Vespinae) from the Indian subcontinent. Halteres, 9, 86 - 110. https: // doi. org / 10.5281 / zenodo. 1258043
  • Fateryga, A. V. (2018) Wasps of the family Vespidae (Hymenoptera) of the Crimean Peninsula. Entomofauna, 39 (1), 193 - 233.