Dolichovespula arenaria (Fabricius)

Kimsey, Lynn S. & Carpenter, James M., 2012, The Vespinae of North America (Vespidae, Hymenoptera), Journal of Hymenoptera Research 28, pp. 37-65 : 43

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jhr.28.3514

publication LSID

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persistent identifier

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scientific name

Dolichovespula arenaria (Fabricius)
status

 

Dolichovespula arenaria (Fabricius) Figs 32 View Figures 26–37 51, 56 View Figures 48–53

Vespa arenaria Fabricius 1775:365. Holotype female; "America arenosis" (LONDON).

Vespa borealis Kirby 1837:264. Holotype female; Canada (repository unknown).

Vespa diabolica de Saussure 1854:138. Syntype females; “L’Amerique du Nord, Philadelphia" (TURIN).

Vespa fernaldi Lewis 1897:173. Holotype female; “Colorado” (PHILADELPHIA).

Distribution.

This species is abundant throughout boreal North America.

Biology.

Dolichovespula arenaria feeds on live prey but will occasionally visit carrion. It builds aerial nests, like Dolichovespula maculata , but its nests are usually built in more sheltered sites, such as within bushes, trees, on houses and outbuildings, and rarely even under rocks.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Hexapoda

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Vespidae

Genus

Dolichovespula

Loc

Dolichovespula arenaria (Fabricius)

Kimsey, Lynn S. & Carpenter, James M. 2012
2012
Loc

Vespa fernaldi

Lewis 1897
1897
Loc

Vespa diabolica

de Saussure 1854
1854
Loc

Vespa arenaria

Fabricius 1775
1775