Parapolybia varia (Fabricius, 1787)

Shimizu, So, Chen, Hsuan-Pu, Lin, Kai-Ti, Chen, Ren-Jye, Fujie, Shunpei, Hung, Su-Chuan, Lo, Mei-Ling, Tsai, Ke-Hsiung & Maeto, Kaoru, 2023, Online citizen sciences reveal natural enemies and new occurrence data of Meteorus stellatus Fujie, Shimizu & Maeto, 2021 (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Euphorinae), Biodiversity Data Journal 11, pp. 103436-103436 : 103436

Parapolybia varia (Fabricius, 1787)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: occurrenceRemarks: Parapolybia varia attacked the suspended communal cocoon of Meteorus stellatus.; recordedBy: Ke-Hsiung Tsai; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 62EFB56C-4F3A-563F-A92A-8CA576C2F0C5; Taxon: scientificName: Parapolybia varia (Fabricius, 1787); acceptedNameUsage: Parapolybia varia (Fabricius, 1787); originalNameUsage: Vespa varia Fabricius, 1787; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Hymenoptera; family: Vespidae; genus: Parapolybia; specificEpithet: varia; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: Fabricius; vernacularName: ヒメホソアシナガバチ, 變側異腹胡蜂; nomenclaturalCode: ICZN; taxonomicStatus: accepted; Location: continent: Asia; islandGroup: Taiwan; country: Taiwan; countryCode: TW; stateProvince: Keelung; municipality: Gangziliao trail; Identification: identifiedBy: Hsuan-Pu Chen, Kai-Ti Lin; dateIdentified: 2022; identificationReferences: Yamane & Wang 1996, Saito-Morooka et al. 2015; Event: eventDate: 01/04/2021; year: 2021; month: 4; day: 1; Record Level: type: StillImage; language: zh; basisOfRecord: HumanObservation; source: https://www.facebook.com/groups/393148477475231/permalink/4372047339585305/ Type status: Other material. Occurrence: occurrenceRemarks: Parapolybia varia attacked the suspended communal cocoon of Meteorus stellatus.; recordedBy: Su-Chuan Hung; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 14CDCD61-6233-5ED6-B4A6-D36FF5591D5D; Taxon: scientificName: Parapolybia varia (Fabricius, 1787); acceptedNameUsage: Parapolybia varia (Fabricius, 1787); originalNameUsage: Vespa varia Fabricius, 1787; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Hymenoptera; family: Vespidae; genus: Parapolybia; specificEpithet: varia; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: Fabricius; vernacularName: ヒメホソアシナガバチ, 變側異腹胡蜂; nomenclaturalCode: ICZN; taxonomicStatus: accepted; Location: continent: Asia; islandGroup: Taiwan; island: Taiwan; country: Taiwan; countryCode: TW; stateProvince: Taipei; county: Beitou; municipality: Erziping trail, Yangmingshan National Park ; Identification: identifiedBy: Hsuan-Pu Chen, Kai-Ti Lin; dateIdentified: 2022; identificationReferences: Yamane & Wang 1996, Saito-Morooka et al. 2015; Event: eventDate: 03/07/2022; year: 2022; month: 7; day: 3; Record Level: type: MovingImage; language: zh; basisOfRecord: HumanObservation; source: https://www.facebook.com/groups/588350308851792/permalink/775928626760625 /

Ecology

Predation behaviour on the cocoon of M. stellatus by a single worker (Fig. 10 ) or many workers of this species (as shown in the video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYzqgeJwxOo) was reported for the first time in the present paper.

Taxon discussion

Although preserved specimens were unavailable and these paper wasps sometimes exhibit a wide range of colour variations ( van der Vecht 1966), the available characters, based on photographs and movies, matched well with the diagnostic characters for this species listed by Yamane and Wang (1996) and Saito-Morooka et al. (2015).

Figures

Figure 10. Source photograph of digital occurrence data of predator of Meteorus stellatus Fujie, Shimizu & Maeto, 2021 (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Euphorinae) from Taiwan observed by Ke-Hsiung Tsai. A female paper wasp worker of Parapolybia varia (Fabricius, 1787) (Hymenoptera, Vespidae) attacking a suspended communal cocoon of M. stellatus.