Eumenes coarctatus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Cassar, Thomas, Mifsud, David & Selis, Marco, 2022, The potter wasps of the Maltese Islands (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Eumeninae), Journal of Hymenoptera Research 90, pp. 201-212 : 201

Eumenes coarctatus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Material examined.

Malta • 1♀, malaise trap, Fawwara , 1-8 May 2017, D. Mifsud leg. ; 1♀, Imselliet Valley , 4 Jul. 2020, T. Cassar leg. ; 1♂, Imselliet Valley , 19 Jul. 2020, T. Cassar leg. ; 2♀♀, Mellieћa ( Rdum tal-Madonna), 28 Jun. 2020, T. Cassar leg.

Notes.

Schembri (1980) was the first to mention this species from Malta, recording both the nominate subspecies and E. c. lunulatus . However, the latter is actually regarded as a junior synonym of the nominate subspecies, which is widely distributed across Europe and reaches China in the East ( Gusenleitner 1999). Females are known to collect the larvae of various Geometridae and Tortricidae as larval provisions.