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Vespa vulgaris

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  • 1. Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79 th Street, New York, NY 10024, U. S. A.
  • 2. Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, GPO Box 4646, Darwin, NT 0801, Australia. & Visiting Scientist, CSIRO Land and Water, Private Mail Bag 44, Winnellie, NT 0822, Australia. & University Fellow, Research Institute for Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, NT 0909, Australia. thynnini @ outlook. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4101 - 3823

Description

vulgaris (Linnaeus)

Vespa vulgaris Linnaeus, 1758: 572 - “in Europa” (lectotype female, Linnean Society, London). - Lepeletier, 1836: 516 (redescription). - de Saussure, 1854: 113. - Dalla Torre, 1894: 157 (cat.); 1904: 66 (cat.). - du Buysson, 1905 [1904]: 603 (resdescription; Europe; Asia; Canada). - Day, 1979: 45-84 (designation of lectotype).

Vespa sexcincta Panzer, 1799: 63, Fig. 1, male - “Viennae Austr.” (destroyed).

Vespa vulgaris var. pseudogermanica Stolfa, 1932: 26 (key), female - [Italy] “Lago superiore di Weissenfels (Tarvisio)... Senosecchia” (type depository unknown).

Vespa mixta “Schenck ” Edwards, 1980: 363. Nomen nudum.

Vespula vulgaris; Bequaert, 1930: 68 (in subgenus Vespula). - Johnston, 1960: 157 (Vic.). - Anon., 1962: 44 (Vic.). - Guiglia, 1972: 98 (key), 112 (in subgenus Paravespula; ethology), Figs XXX 3, 5B, XXXV, pl. I. - Richards, 1978: 4 (key), 6 (Vic.). - Ólafsson, 1979: 27–40 (introduced Iceland). - Donovan, 1984: 417–427 (introduced New Zealand). - Cardale, 1985: 209 (in subgenus Paravespula; cat.). - Clapperton et al., 1989: 315-323 (distr. in New Zealand), - Crosland, 1991: 375 (spread in Vic.). - Field & Darby, 1991: 193–197 (biocontrol with Sphecophaga vesparum). - Carpenter & Kojima, 1997: 81 (list). - Kojima, 1998: 196, 224, Figs 1288–1289 (larva). - Clapperton, 1999: 11–19 (ecology in New Zealand). - Matthews et al., 2000:177–179 (Tas.). - Bashford, 2001: 1–12 (Tas.). - Masciocchi et al., 2010: 267–270 (introduced Argentina). - Bashford, 2010: 163–169 (baiting). - Archer, 2012: 241 (key), 285, Figs 9.64B, 9.66B, 9.70, 9.71B, 9.72B, 9.73B, 9.74B, 9.75-76, 10.127. - Vallas, 2012: 1 (introduced Tahiti). - Barrera Medina & Muñoz, 2013: 277–278 (introduced Chile). - Lester et al., 2014: 966 (possible supercession by V. germanica in Australia). - Perrard et al., 2016: Figs 2–3, 7–8 (phylogenetic relationships). - Potter-Craven et al., 2018: 521–532 (conservation impact). - Lester & Beggs, 2019:51–71 (invasion history, impact, control). - Harrop et al., 2020: 3479–3488 (genome).

Paravespula vulgaris; Blüthgen, 1943b: 149; 1961: 43, Fig. 19. - Archer, 1989: 27 (key), 37, Figs 8C, 9C, 10C, 17B, 64B, 66B, 70A, 71B, 72B; 1998: 280 (distr.); 2008: 5-29 (ecology).

Vespula rufosignata Eck, 1998: 299, female, Figs 1A, C, 2 - “ India: Kashmir... Gulmarg, 2900 m ” (type depository not stated; London); also from two other localities. - Carpenter, 2009: 292 (syn. of vulgaris (Linnaeus)).

Vespula vulgaris vetus Eck, 1999: 309, 329, female, male - “ China, Quinghai Prov., Datong-Tal, 120 km NE Xinging, 2360 m ” (holotype female Dresden); also from five other localities. NEW SYNONYMY.

Vespula yunlongensis Dong and Wang, 2003, in Dong et al.: 212, Fig. 1, female [?] - “ YUNNAN CHINA ” (Kunming). - Tan et al., 2015: 52 (syn. of vulgaris (Linnaeus)).

Distribution: SE coastal; Vic., Tas.; introduced into Australia (Vic. 1958, Tas. 1995); native to Eurasia, also introduced into New Zealand; Iceland; Tahiti; Chile; Argentina.

Notes

Published as part of Carpenter, James M. & Brown, Graham R., 2022, Catalogue of the Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), pp. 451-495 in Zootaxa 5214 (4) on pages 471-472, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5214.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7397617

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Biodiversity

Family
Vespidae
Genus
Vespa
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hymenoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Species
vulgaris
Taxon rank
species

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