Vespa tropica (Linnaeus, 1758)

Dorji, Phurpa, Nidup, Tshering, Klein, Wim, Dorji, Cheten, Daglio, Anthony & Gyeltshen, Choki, 2022, An annotated checklist of the Vespidae (Hymenoptera: Vespoidea) of Bhutan with new records, Zootaxa 5150 (3), pp. 301-332 : 323

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63. Vespa tropica (Linnaeus, 1758) View in CoL

Sphex tropica Linnaeus, 1758: 571 . Holotype female; ‘in Indiis’ (UPPSALA).

Vespa cincta Fabricius, 1775: 362 View in CoL .

Vespa crabro tenebrionis Christ, 1791: 216 View in CoL .

Vespa deusta Lepeletier, 1836: 506 .

Vespa unicolor Smith, 1863: 44 View in CoL .

Vespa cinta Wroughton, 1889: 35 .

Vespa eulemoides du Buysson, 1905 (1904) : 530.

Vespa affinis var. trisignata Pérez, 1910: 8 .

Vespa rubricans Pérez, 1910: 10 View in CoL .

Vespa tropica var. anthracina Bequaert, 1936: 341 View in CoL .

Vespa tropica var. haematodes Bequaert, 1936: 338 View in CoL .

Vespa tropica leefmansi van der Vecht, 1957: 19 View in CoL .

Vespa tropica trimeres van der Vecht, 1957: 19 View in CoL .

Vespa tropica cebuana Kojima and Reyes, 1984: 260 View in CoL .

Distribution: Bhutan: Trashigang, Samdrup Jongkhar, Chhukha, Tsirang (Dorji, Gyeltshen, et al. 2017; Dorji, Klein, et al. 2017a). Elsewhere: Afghanistan; India; Myanmar; Thailand; Vietnam; Laos; Cambodia; Malaysia; Singapore; Brunei; Philippines; Indonesia; China; Nepal; Pakistan; Sri Lanka ( Archer 1989, 2012; Das & Gupta 1983, 1989; Dorji, Gyeltshen, et al. 2017; Dorji, Klein, et al. 2017a; Gawas et al. 2020; Gawas et al. 2019; Ghosh et al. 2020; Gusenleitner 2006, 2011; Kumar & Sharma 2014a, 2015b; Nguyen, Saito, et al. 2006; Nugroho et al. 2011; Qasim et al. 2018; Rafi et al. 2017; Rauf et al. 2018; Sora et al. 2019; Smith-Pardo et al. 2020; van der Vecht 1959).

References

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Kumar, P. G. & Sharma, G. (2014 a) Taxonomic studies on vespid wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespoidea: Vespidae) of Sunderbans Biosphere Reserve, West Bengal, India. Part 1. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, 114 (Part- 4), 563 - 580.

Kumar, P. G. & Sharma, G. (2015 b) Taxonomic studies on vespid wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespoidea: Vespidae) of Chhattisgarh, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 7 (14), 8096 - 8127.

Nugroho, H., Kojima, J. I. & Carpenter, J. M. (2011) Checklist of vespid species (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Vespidae) occuring in Indonesia Archipelago. Treubia, 38, 71 - 186.

Qasim, M., Khan, I. A., Rafi, M. A., Khan, M. R., Amin, M., Sheik, M. K., Rasul, G. & Shah, M. (2018) Wasps fauna of (Subfamilies: Eumeninae, Vespinae and Polistinae) from district Muzaffarabad, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan. Journal of Animal Sciences, 2 (4), 26 - 30.

Rafi, M. A., Carpenter, J. M., Qasim, M., Shehzad, A., Zia, A., Khan, M. R., Mastoi, M. I., Naz, F., Ilyas, M., Shah, M. & Bhatti, A. R. (2017) The vespid fauna of Pakistan. Zootaxa, 4362 (1), 1 - 28. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4362.1.1

Rauf, S. A., Rafi, M. A., Qasim, M., Sheik, K., Mehmood, K., Khan, A. & Rahman, A. (2018) Wasp fauna of subfamilies (Eumeninae, Polistinae and Vespinae) from Dir, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Journal of Animal Sciences, 2 (1), 1 - 7.

Smith-Pardo, A. H., Carpenter, J. M. & Kimsey, L. (2020) The Diversity of Hornets in the Genus Vespa (Hymenoptera: Vespidae; Vespinae), Their Importance and Interceptions in the United States. Insect Systematics and Diversity, 4 (3), 1 - 17. https: // doi. org / 10.1093 / isd / ixaa 006

Sora, K., Gawas, S. M., Gupta, A. & Shaw, S. S. (2019) Checklist of vespid wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) of Arunachal Pradesh, India, with a new distribution record of Vespula flaviceps (Smith). Journal of Biological Control, 33 (4), 336 - 342. https: // doi. org / 10.18311 / jbc / 2019 / 24148

van der Vecht, J. (1957) The Vespinae of the Indo-Malayan and Papuan areas (Hymenoptera, Vespidae). Zoologische Verhandelingen, 34, 1 - 83.

van der Vecht, J. (1959) Notes on Oriental Vespinae, including some species from China and Japan (Hymenoptera, Vespidae). Zoologische Mededelingen, XXXVI (13), 205 - 232.