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
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scientific name	Vespa tropica haematodes Bequaert, 1936
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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).