Leptochilus medanae (Gribodo, 1886)

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

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jhr.90.79373

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:1170E62D-D9D4-422D-AC60-843EB114B10E

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/E1975D14-35BA-5089-9B76-63E94F11DB59

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scientific name

Leptochilus medanae (Gribodo, 1886)
status

 

Leptochilus medanae (Gribodo, 1886)

Material examined.

None.

Notes.

Schembri (1980) recorded this species on the basis of two males collected from Gћadira in August 1977. This taxon occurs throughout southern Europe - namely the Iberian Peninsula, France, Italy (including Sardinia and Sicily) and Malta; it also occurs in North Africa, Israel and Jordan, where the reddish subspecies L. m. falkenhayni (Dusmet, 1917) inhabits desert areas ( Gusenleitner 1993).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Vespidae

Genus

Leptochilus