Vespa tropica Linnaeus 1758
| Main Authors: | Siddiqui, Junaid Ali, Bodlah, Imran, Carpenter, James M., Naeem, Muhammad, Ahmad, Munir, Bodlah, Muhammad Adnan |
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| Format: | info publication-taxonomictreatment Journal |
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, 2015
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| Online Access: |
https://zenodo.org/record/6095225 |
Daftar Isi:
- Vespa tropica (Linnaeus, 1758) (Fig. 33) Sphex tropica Linnaeus, 1758: 571, “in Indiis” (holotype ♀ Uppsala). Vespa cincta Fabricius, 1775: 362, [India] “ad littora Malabarica” (Kobenhavn), nom. praeocc., nec Vespa cincta Drury, 1773, nec Vespa cincta De Geer 1773. Vespa Crabro tenebrionis Christ, 1791: 216, pl. 18, fig. 4 (destroyed). Vespa deusta Lepeletier de Saint Fargeau, 1836: 506, ♀, “Patrie inconnue” (lectotype Torino). Vespa unicolor Smith, 1863: 44, ♀, [Indonesia] “Bouru” (Oxford). Vespa eulemoides du Buysson, 1905: 491 (key), 530, ♀, [India] “ Ile Andaman: port de Blair” (Genova). Vespa affinis var. trisignata Pérez, 1910: 8, ♀, [Indonesia] “Timor” (Paris). Vespa rubricans Pérez, 1910: 10, ♀, “Lindi (Afrique orientale allemande)” (lectotype Paris). Vespa tropica var. anthracina Bequaert, 1936: 335 (key), 341, ♀, ♂, “ Philippine Islands: Sibuwan” (holotype ♀ Washington). Vespa tropica var. haematodes Bequaert, 1936: 336 (key), 338, ♀, ♂ - “ India: Kooloo” (holotype ♀ Cambridge). Vespa tropica leefmansi van der Vecht, 1957: 19, ♀, ♂, [Indonesia] “Solok, Padang, Sumatra” (holotype ♀ Leiden). Vespa tropica trimeres van der Vecht, 1957: 19 (key), 22, ♀, [Indonesia] “Palu, West Celebes” (Leiden). Vespa tropica cebuana Kojima & Reyes, 1984: 260, ♀, [Philippines] “Cebu City” (Tokyo). Material examined. Attock, 20.x. 12, 1♀, 26.05.xii, 2 ♀; Rawalpindi, 23.xi. 11, 3♀, 1 ♂, 07.vi. 12, 1♀; Chakwal, 16,vi, 12, 2 ♀. Distribution. Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Cambodia, China, Thailand, India, Papua New Guinea, Laos, Malaysia, Nepal, Philippines, Vietnam, Myanmar (Carpenter & Kojima 1997, Dvořák 2007, Mahmood et al. 2012). Comments. Collected specimens were compared with Mahmood et al. (2012). This species can be distinguished on the basis of followings characters: second metasomal segment completely orange and further segments are black. New locality records have been provided for this species.
- Published as part of Siddiqui, Junaid Ali, Bodlah, Imran, Carpenter, James M., Naeem, Muhammad, Ahmad, Munir & Bodlah, Muhammad Adnan, 2015, Vespidae (Hymenoptera) of the Pothwar region of Punjab, Pakistan, pp. 501-524 in Zootaxa 3914 (5) on page 519, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3914.5.1, http://zenodo.org/record/241739