Eumenes cyrenaicus Bluethgen , 1938

van Achterberg, Cornelis, Smit, John T. & Ljubomirov, Toshko, 2023, Review of the European Eumenes Latreille (Hymenoptera, Vespidae) using morphology and DNA barcodes, with an illustrated key to species, ZooKeys 1143, pp. 93-163 : 93

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scientific name

Eumenes cyrenaicus Bluethgen , 1938
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Eumenes cyrenaicus Bluethgen, 1938 View in CoL

Figs 55-64 View Figures 55–64 , 65-74 View Figures 65–74

Eumenes dubius cyrenaicus Blüthgen, 1938: 464, 468.

Eumenes (Eumenes) dubius cyrenaicus ; van der Vecht and Fischer 1972: 127 (literature before 1972).

Eumenes (Eumenes) cyrenaicus cyrenaicus ; Dal Pos et al. 2022: 15.

Eumenes dubius cyrenaicus var. congruens Blüthgen, 1938: 464; van der Vecht and Fischer 1972: 127 (as synonym of E. cyrenaicus ).

Eumenes dubius dubius var. pseudogermanica Blüthgen, 1938: 464.

Eumenes (Eumenes) dubius pseudogermanicus ; van der Vecht and Fischer 1972: 127.

Eumenes cyrenaicus pseudogermanicus ; Giordani Soika and Borsato 1995: 7; Gusenleitner 1999: 571, 2013: 27; Borsato and Turrisi 2004: 144; Borsato 2006: 142.

Eumenes (Eumenes) cyrenaicus pseudogermanicus ; Dal Pos et al. 2022: 15.

Notes.

Eumenes cyrenaicus is similarly coloured as E. dubius f. palaestinensis Blüthgen, 1938 from Asia Minor, but E. cyrenaicus has the yellow stripe of the eye incision narrow or absent (wide in E. dubius f. palaestinensis ) and the clypeus sparser setose (densely silvery setose in E. dubius f. palaestinensis ). Males can be separated by the shape of the antennal hook (in ventral view normal in E. cyrenaicus and widened in E. dubius f. palaestinensis ) and sculpture of fifth sternite (distinctly punctate in E. cyrenaicus and punctulate in E. dubius f. palaestinensis ). Typical E. dubius f. palaestinensis has the apical lamella of the second tergite yellow and in E. cyrenaicus light brown or yellowish (Fig. 65 View Figures 65–74 ); Sardinia, Spain and Portugal, N Africa) to blackish brown (Italy, N Macedonia, Greece, Bulgaria, Turkey, but sometimes also pale brown (Fig. 55 View Figures 55–64 ); Gusenleitner (1972) already mentioned the variability of this character for E. dubius in Asia. The separation of E. cyrenaicus from E. sareptanus is mostly based on colour differences and, therefore, may be problematic. In general, females of E. cyrenaicus have a more robust first tergite, including the petiolate part and males have the antennal hook more curved than in E. sareptanus .

Distribution.

North Africa, South Europe (*Spain, *Portugal, Italy (Sardinia, Sicily), *N Macedonia, *Bulgaria, *Greece) and *Turkey.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Vespidae

Genus

Eumenes

Loc

Eumenes cyrenaicus Bluethgen , 1938

van Achterberg, Cornelis, Smit, John T. & Ljubomirov, Toshko 2023
2023
Loc

Eumenes cyrenaicus pseudogermanicus

Bluthgen 1938
1938
Loc

Eumenes (Eumenes) cyrenaicus pseudogermanicus

Bluthgen 1938
1938