Published March 26, 2025 | Version v1
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Odynerus (Odynerus) spinipes

  • 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

Odynerus (Odynerus) spinipes (Linnaeus, 1758)

Literature records

Khalaf (1958); Derwesh (1965); Augul (2017); Al-Saffar and Augul (2021).

Remarks

We have examined no specimens of this species from Iraq. Augul (2017) and Al-Saffar and Augul (2021) cite Khalaf (1958) as a previous source for the occurrence of this species in Iraq and provide further records, but as visible from the pictures provided by Augul (2017) these records are in fact attributable to Odynerus armeniacus. The data published by Khalaf (1958) cannot be considered reliable, as O. spinipes is a mainly northern species, occurring in central and northern Europe with few isolate records in southern Europe and northern Turkey. Pending further investigation, we exclude O. spinipes from the list of Iraqi Vespidae.

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

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Biodiversity

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.
  • Augul RS. 2017. Revision of vespid wasps (Hymenoptera; Vespidae) in Iraq. J Biodiv Envir Sci. 10 (3): 99-111.
  • Al-Saffar HH, Augul RS. 2021. Survey of insects in some Southern Iraqi marshes. Bull Iraq Nat Hist Mus. 16 (4): 571-621. doi: 10.26842/binhm.7.2021.16.4.0571.