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Vespula germanica

  • 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

Vespula germanica (Fabricius, 1793)

Literature records

Khalaf (1958); Derwesh (1965); Al-Ali (1977); Augul (2017).

Material examined

IRAQ: Kurdistan, Duhok, Bnavi village, 1498 m, 37.2477°N 43.3791°E, 7 June 2024, 2 ♀ (MSVI).

Distribution

United Kingdom, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, France, Italy (including Sardinia and Sicily), Switzerland, Austria, Lichtenstein, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Romania, Moldova, Bulgaria, Albania, North Macedonia, Greece, Poland, Lithuania, Estonia, Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, Spain (including Balearic and Canary Islands), Portugal (including Azores), Malta, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, India, Mongolia, China, Korea, introduced into Iceland, New Zealand, Australia, Ascension Islands, South Africa, Chila, Argentina, Canada, United States (Rahmani et al. 2020).

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 page 972, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2025.2460842, http://zenodo.org/record/17005740

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
MSVI
Event date
2024-06-07
Verbatim event date
2024-06-07
Scientific name authorship
Fabricius
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Vespidae
Genus
Vespula
Species
germanica
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Vespula germanica (Fabricius, 1793) sec. Selis, Ismael, Hamad, Baiocchi & Cilia, 2025

References

  • Khalaf KT. 1958. Some Hymenoptera and Coleoptera from Iraq. Iraq Nat Hist Mus Publ. Publications. 14: 1-3.
  • Derwesh AI. 1965. A preliminary list of identified insects and some arachnids of Iraq. Baghdad: The Government Press; p. 123.
  • Al-Ali AS. 1977. Phytophagous and entomophagous insects and mites of Iraq. Iraq Nat Hist Res Cent. 33: 1-142.
  • Augul RS. 2017. Revision of vespid wasps (Hymenoptera; Vespidae) in Iraq. J Biodiv Envir Sci. 10 (3): 99-111.
  • Rahmani Z, Rakhshani E, Carpenter JM. 2020. Updated Checklist of Vespidae (Hymenoptera: Vespoidea) in Iran. Journal of Insect Biodiv & Syst. 6 (1): 27-86. doi: 10.52547/jibs.6.1.27.