Published March 26, 2025 | Version v1
Taxonomic treatment Open

Jucancistrocerus (Jucancistrocerus) jucundus subsp. jucundus

  • 1. Independent Researcher, Viterbo, Italy;
  • 2. Department of Plant Protection, College of Agricultural Engineering Sciences, University of Duhok, Duhok, Iraq;
  • 3. Khabat Technical Institute, Erbil Polytechnic University, Erbil, Iraq;
  • 4. Independent Researcher, Roma, Italy;
  • 5. CREA Research Centre for Agriculture and Environment (CREA-AA), Bologna, Italy & Independent Researcher, Viterbo, Italy;

Description

Jucancistrocerus (Jucancistrocerus) jucundus jucundus (Mocsáry, 1883)

Literature records

Morice (1921); Derwesh (1965), mentioning ‘Survey of Iraq Fauna, 1915–1919’; Giordani Soika (1970).

Remarks

This species was described from Iraq as Nortonia deceptrix Morice, 1921, a taxon later regarded as a variety or subspecies (Blüthgen 1939; Giordani Soika 1970) and finally as a synonym (Gusenleitner 2013a) of J. jucundus.

Distribution

Austria, Hungary, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan (Gusenleitner 2013a).

Notes

Published as part of Selis, Marco, Ismael, Halgurd R., Hamad, Mudhafar I., Baiocchi, Daniele & Cilia, Giovanni, 2025, A first update to the vespid fauna of Iraq (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), with description of a new species, pp. 941-981 in Journal of Natural History 59 (13 - 16) on pages 958-959, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2025.2460842, http://zenodo.org/record/17005740

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References

  • Morice FD. 1921. Annotated lists of Aculeate Hymenoptera (except Heterogyna) and Chrysids recently collected in Mesopotamia and North-West Persia. J Bombay Nat Hist Soci. 28: 192-203.
  • Derwesh AI. 1965. A preliminary list of identified insects and some arachnids of Iraq. Baghdad: The Government Press; p. 123.
  • Giordani Soika A. 1970. Contributo alla conoscenza degli Eumenidi del Medio Oriente. Missione Giordani Soika in Iran 1965, III. Bollettino del Museo civico di Storia naturale di Venezia. 20 (21): 27-183.
  • Bluthgen P. 1939. Beitrage zur Kenntnis der palaarktischen und einiger athiopischer Faltenwespen (Hym. Vespidae). Veroffentlichungen aus dem Deutschen Kolonial - und Ubersee Museum in Bremen. 2 (3): 233-267.
  • Gusenleitner J. 2013 a. Die Gattungen der Eumeninae im Nahen Osten. Nordafrika und in Arabien (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae). Linzer biologische Beitrage. 45 (1): 5-107.