Vespa arisana Sonan 1929

Kojima, Jun-Ichi, Saito, Fuki & Nguyen, Lien Thi Phuong, 2011, On the species-group taxa of Taiwanese social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) described and / or treated by J. Sonan, Zootaxa 2920, pp. 42-64 : 56

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.201805
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6191384
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AD7C879B-1C0F-FFAC-5CD8-FD39FF71FC05
treatment provided by	Plazi (2016-04-11 10:37:19, last updated 2024-11-26 01:29:52)
scientific name	Vespa arisana Sonan 1929
status

Treatment

Vespa arisana Sonan 1929 [ Vespula arisana ( Sonan 1929) ]

Type material. Sonan (1929) described this nominal taxon with the desiganation of the female with collection data “Funkiko (Arisan 4,600 ft.) 16.XI.1926 (Coll. J. Sonan)” as the HOLOTYPE. The holotype is in TARI and labeled “Funkiko / 16.XI.1926 / Col. J. Sonan”, Type label, “ Vespa / arisana Sonan / det. J. Sonan”, and “167”. He listed the following specimens designated as PARATYPES: 2 Ƥ, Arisan (Funkiko), 2–23.X.1918 (J. Sonan, M. Yoshino); 1 Ƥ, Horisha, V–VIII.1918 (H. Kawamura); 1 Ƥ, Taito, 25.II–27.III.1919 (S. Inamura, J. Sonan, M. Yoshino). Of these paratypes, only a single female from “Arisan” and the female from “Horisha” were located in TARI.