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Vespula flaviceps Smith

Description

Vespula flaviceps (Smith)

Vespa flaviceps Smith in Horne & Smith 1870: 174, 191.

Vespa karenkona Sonan 1929: 148 [holotype Ƥ in TARI; treated as a subspecies of Vespula flaviceps (Smith) by Yamane et al. (1980: 16); synonymized under Vespula flaviceps (Smith) by Starr (1992: 109) in ambiguous manner].

Vespa 4-maculata Sonan 1929: 148 –149 [holotype Ƥ in TARI; synonymized under Vespula flaviceps karenkona (Sonan) by Yamane et al. (1980: 16)].

Vespula flaviceps (Smith): Starr 1992: 109 –110.

Notes

Published as part of Kojima, Jun-Ichi, Saito, Fuki & Nguyen, Lien Thi Phuong, 2011, On the species-group taxa of Taiwanese social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) described and / or treated by J. Sonan, pp. 42-64 in Zootaxa 2920 on page 46, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.201805

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Smith
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Vespidae
Genus
Vespula
Species
flaviceps
Taxon rank
species

References

  • Horne, C. & Smith, F. (1870) Notes on the habits of some hymenopterous insects from the North-west Province of India, with an appendix, containing descriptions of some new species of Apidae and Vespidae collected by Mr. Horne. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, 7 (3), 161 - 196, pls. 19 - 22.
  • Sonan, J. (1929) On Ve sp a from Formosa (1). Transactions of the Natural History Society of Formosa, 19, 136 - 149, pl. 6. (In Japanese).
  • Starr, C. K. (1992) The social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) of Taiwan. Bulletin of the National Museum of Natural Science, (3), 93 - 138.