Vespa tropica haematodes Bequaert, 1936

Kumar, P. Girish & Rajmohana, K., 2018, Taxonomic studies on Wasps of Kottooli and Thalassery-Dharmadam Mangroves of Kerala (Insecta: Hymenoptera), Records of the Zoological Survey of India 118 (4), pp. 337-349 : 339

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.26515/rzsi/v118/i4/2018/119059

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13184549

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Vespa tropica haematodes Bequaert, 1936
status

 

4. Vespa tropica haematodes Bequaert, 1936 View in CoL

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1936. Vespa tropica var. haematodes Bequaert , 336, 338. Holotype ♀, India: “Kooloo” ( MCZ).

Material examined: INDIA: Kerala, Kozhikode district, Kottooli wet land, 2 sterile ♀, 9.ix.2015, Coll. K. Rajmohana, WGRC Regd. Nos. ZSI/ WGRS /I.R-INV.4753–4754 .

Diagnosis: Body rather large and thick,covered with strong and stiff hairs; clypeus coarsely punctate, apical margin hairy; apical margin of clypeus with broad emargination, its apico-lateral angle triangular; lower vertical area of pronotum with strong transverse ridges near pronotal pit.

Distribution: India: Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Pondicherry, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttarakhand, West Bengal. Elsewhere: Bhutan; China; Myanmar; Nepal; Pakistan; Sri Lanka; Vietnam (Sheikh et. al., 2017).

MCZ

Museum of Comparative Zoology

WGRS

Western Ghat Regional Station of the Zoological Survey of India at Calicut

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Vespidae

Genus

Vespa

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