Vespa tropica ( Linnaeus, 1758 )

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, Zootaxa 3914 (5), pp. 501-524 : 519

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3914.5.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6095225
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scientific name	Vespa tropica ( Linnaeus, 1758 )
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Vespa tropica ( Linnaeus, 1758) View in CoL

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Sphex tropica Linnaeus, 1758: 571 View in CoL View Cited Treatment , “in Indiis” (holotype ♀ Uppsala).

Vespa cincta Fabricius, 1775: 362 View in CoL , [ India] “ad littora Malabarica” (Kobenhavn), nom. praeocc., nec Vespa cincta Drury, 1773 View in CoL , nec Vespa cincta De Geer 1773 View in CoL .

Vespa Crabro View in CoL 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 View in CoL , ♀, [ Indonesia] “Bouru” (Oxford).

Vespa eulemoides du Buysson, 1905: 491 (key), 530, ♀, [ India] “ Ile Andaman: port de Blair” (Genova).

Vespa affinis View in CoL var. trisignata Pérez, 1910: 8 , ♀, [ Indonesia] “Timor” (Paris).

Vespa rubricans Pérez, 1910: 10 View in CoL , ♀, “Lindi ( Afrique orientale allemande)” (lectotype Paris).

Vespa tropica View in CoL var. anthracina Bequaert, 1936: 335 (key), 341, ♀, ♂, “ Philippine Islands: Sibuwan” (holotype ♀ Washington).

Vespa tropica View in CoL var. haematodes Bequaert, 1936: 336 (key), 338, ♀, ♂ - “ India: Kooloo” (holotype ♀ Cambridge).

Vespa tropica leefmansi View in CoL van der Vecht, 1957: 19, ♀, ♂, [ Indonesia] “Solok, Padang, Sumatra” (holotype ♀ Leiden).

Vespa tropica trimeres View in CoL van der Vecht, 1957: 19 (key), 22, ♀, [ Indonesia] “Palu, West Celebes” (Leiden).

Vespa tropica cebuana Kojima & Reyes, 1984: 260 View in CoL , ♀, [ 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.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Hymenoptera
Family	Vespidae
Genus	Vespa