First record of Vespa crabro Linnaeus (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) in western North America with a review of recorded species of Vespa Linnaeus in Canada
Bass, Amber
Needham, Karen
Bennett, Andrew M. R.
Zootaxa
2022
2022-06-15
5154
3
305
318
5B9T3
Linnaeus
Linnaeus
1758
[151,432,974,1001]
Insecta
Vespidae
Vespa
Animalia
Hymenoptera
2
307
Arthropoda
species
crabro
Figs 1–2 The specimen collected on Mayne Island ( Fig. 2) was identified morphologically by the authors as the Japanese colour form of Vespa crabro, formerly Vespa crabro flavofasciataCameron(following the taxon concepts of Archer 1992) which is native to Japan, Korea, and eastern Russia( Archer 1992). A 658 base pair (bp) sequence of the specimen (GenBank Accession OL702713) was 100% identical to 14 sequences of V. crabrofrom South Korea: GenBank Accessions MN716838– MN716841and MN609218– MN609227(see Discussion for details of these sequences), with an E-value of 0.0 and a bit score of 1214.
Material examined: CANADA: 1 ♀, British Columbia, Mayne Island, Horton Bay, 48°49’29.16”N, 123°14’41.46”W, 28.vi.2020, E. Roth, SEM-UBC HYM-14585, ( SEM) ( Fig. 2); 1 ♀, Ontario, Thwartway Island, 44°17’37.50”N, 76°9’0.45”W, 23.x.1976, R. A. Turner, CNC1754075, DNA voucher AB088 ( CNC); JAPAN: 1 ♀, Hokkaido, Onuma, 41°58’55.45”N 140°40’13.94”E, 23–24.vii.1966, A. Mutuura, CNC1754076, DNA voucher AB163 ( CNC); SOUTH KOREA: 1 ♀, Desong-dong, Chipom, 26.v.1952, F.C. R. Chalke, CNC1754077( CNC); USA: 1 ♀, Maryland, Calvert Co., Port Republic, 38°30’3.15”N 76°31’44.44”W, 12–15.x.1991. D.M. Wood, CNC1754074, DNA voucher AB087 ( CNC); 1 ♀, North Carolina, Pitt Co., Stokesvic., 17.ix.1984, R. S. Jacobson( CNC) ( Fig. 1).
Distribution: Vespa crabrois widespread across the Palaearctic region, introduced and established in the eastern Nearctic and adventive in the northwest Nearctic (current study).
Diagnosis: Vespa crabrocan be distinguished from other Vespaspeciescollected in Canadaby having a combination of the following characters: 1) length of gena less than 1.6× length of eye at midheight in lateral view ( Figs 1B, 2B); 2) pretegular carina complete, extending the height of the pronotal lobe ( Fig. 1D); 3) female clypeus with punctures clearly defined, contiguous or nearly so ( Figs 1C, 2C); 4) male metasomal sternites 6–7 with posterior margins straight or only shallowly indented medially. The Japanese form of V. crabrodiffers from the west European form in that the posterior yellow fasciae on terga 2 to 6 are generally narrow, especially on tergum 2, and sublateral black spots, if present, are not prominently projecting into the yellow fasciae ( Fig. 2B) (west European colour form with larger proportion of terga 2 to 6 yellow, and with sublateral black spots generally prominently projecting into yellow fasciae, at least on terga 3 to 5) ( Fig. 1B). Females of the Japanese form are generally darker than the European form in the ocellar area, as well as the scutellum; however, darkening of these regions does occur in some North American specimens of the European form.
3815670301
2020-06-28
SEM
E. Roth
Canada
48.824764
Horton Bay
1
-123.24485
Mayne Island
2
307
1
1
British Columbia
3815670317
1976-10-23
R
Canada
44.29375
Thwartway Island
1
-76.15012
2
307
1
1
Ontario
3815670312
[651,931,1365,1392]
CNC
Turner
Canada
2
307
CNC1754075
1
3815670311
1966-07-23
1966-07-24
1966-07-23
CNC
A. Mutuura
Japan
41.98207
Onuma
1
140.67055
2
307
CNC1754076
1
1
Hokkaido
3815670316
[333,1082,1437,1464]
1952-05-26
R
South Korea
Chipom
Desong-dong
2
307
1
1
3815670304
[1094,1432,1437,1464]
CNC
South Korea
Chalke
2
307
CNC1754077
1
3815670315
1991-10-12
1991-10-15
1991-10-12
CNC
D. M. Wood
United States of America
Calvert Co.
38.500874
Port Republic
1
-76.529015
2
307
CNC1754074
1
1
Maryland
3815670307
[664,1302,1510,1536]
1984-09-17
R
United States of America
Pitt Co.
Stokes
2
307
1
1
North Carolina
3815670314
CNC
United States of America
Jacobson
2
307
1