Dolichovespula saxonica (FABRICIUS 1793)

Dvořák, L. & Ramel, G., 2009, Social wasps of Wetland Kerkini, northern Greece (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Vespinae, Polistinae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 41 (2), pp. 1937-1948 : 1943

Dolichovespula saxonica (FABRICIUS 1793)

L o c a l i t i e s Neo Petritsi, Sultanitsa, 14.- 21.7.2008, 13. Vironia, Beabies, 7.- 13.7.2008, 13; 21.- 27.7.2008, 13.

Three finds from two montane stands (1150 and 1485 m a.s.l.). Palaearctic species distributed from the British Isles in the west to Japan in the East ; it does not occur further south. ARCHER 1999 published the list of countries where D. saxonica occurs: Greece is on the list, but no source of the data was given (the data of this record are: northern Greece, Aspropotomas , 4700 feet, 27.7.1976, 13, K. Guichard leg., M. E. Archer 1977 det. et coll., checked 2009). The first precisely located record for the Greek fauna .