Eumenes mediterraneus Kriechbaumer, 1879

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 mediterraneus Kriechbaumer, 1879

Material examined.

Malta • 1♂, Buskett , 5 Jul. 2020, T. Cassar leg. ; 1♀, Mqabba , 4 Jul. 2015, D. Mifsud leg. ; 4♂♂, Żebbuġ, 20 May 2020, T. Cassar leg.; 1♀, Żebbuġ, 4 Jun. 2020, T. Cassar leg.

Notes.

Recorded from the Maltese Islands by Valletta (1971), Erlandsson (1972), Cilia (1975) and Schembri (1980). The latter recorded the nominate subspecies, a taxon distributed from South Central to southern Europe, east to Central Asia and south to North Africa. Colour is very variable in this species, and some of the bright yellow markings may be more reduced in some individuals than others, especially those on the first abdominal tergite ( Gusenleitner 1999).