Eumenes Latreille mediterraneus mediterraneus Kriechbaumer, 1852

Carpenter, James M., 2023, A Catalogue of the Pacific Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), Zootaxa 5315 (5), pp. 401-455 : 407-408

Subgenus Eumenes Latreille mediterraneus mediterraneus Kriechbaumer

Eumenis mediterranea Kriechbaumer 1879: 85 , female, male—“über das ganze Mittelmeergebiet vom südlichen Tyrol und Friaul bis nach Syrien, Palästina und in die libysche Wüste hinein verbreitet” (lectotype male from “Dalmatia,” München).— Blüthgen 1943: 300 (designation of lectotype).— Blüthgen & Gusenleitner 1970: 6 ( mediterraneus ; Iran).— Castro 1986: 299 ( mediterraneus ; Spain); 1989: 18 ( mediterraneus ; Spain).— Yildirim & Gusenleitner 2004: 133 ( mediterraneus ; Turkey).— Gusenleitner 2008a: 36 ( mediterraneus ; list).— Yildirim & Gusenleitner 2009: 940 ( mediterraneus ; Turkey).— Gusenleitner 2010: 444, pl. 39 ( mediterraneus ; United Arab Emirates); 2011a: 1292 ( mediterraneus ; Tahiti).— Batchuluun et al. 2013: 92 (list).— Neumeyer & Praz 2015: 315 ( mediterraneus ; notes on type).— Antropov & Fateryga 2017: 182 ( mediterraneus ; list).— Ramage 2017: app. 1 ( mediterraneus ).— Fateryga et al. 2019: 27 ( mediterraneus ; Azerbaijan).— Neumeyer 2019: 58 (key), 271, fig. 24.7. ( mediterraneus ; Switzerland).— Baldock et al. 2020: 43 ( mediterraneus ; Portugal; list).— Cassar et al. 2022: 203 (key), 207, fig. 1g ( mediterraneus ; Malta).— Carpenter 2023: 8 ( mediterraneus ; distr.).

Labus superbus Meade-Waldo 1910a: 36 , male—“ White Nile ” (London, no. 18.132).— Bequaert 1918: 274.— Giordani Soika 1935: 163 (syn. of E. pomiformis ).

Eumenes pomiformis ; Cheesman 1928: 180 (Tahiti). Misidentification.

Eumenes mediterraneus mediterraneus ; Blüthgen 1938: 479 (key), 486.— Giordani Soika 1942: 4 ( Italy; notes); 1944: 7 (Sicily).— Blüthgen 1952: 4 ( Turkey).— Giordani Soika 1951: 40; 1952: 18, fig. 1 (3); 1953 [1952]: 239 ( Morocco).— Blüthgen 1961: 204 (key), 208; 1967: 231 (? Bulgaria).— Krombein 1969: 4 (ethology in Egypt).—Blüthgen & K̂nigsmann 1969: 924 ( Albania).— Gusenleitner 1970: 116 (ethology in Turkey).— Valletta 1971: 45–46 ( Malta).— Gusenleitner 1972: 91, figs. 5, 6c–d, 17g.—van der Vecht & Fischer 1972: 129 (cat.).—Guichard, 1986 [1985]: 204 (key), 225 ( Saudi Arabia; Yemen).— Castro 1992: 25 ( Spain); 1997: 4 (cat.).— Madl 1997: 824 ( Turkey).— Borsato 2006: 142 (Sardinia).— Gusenleitner 2006b: 1304 ( Pakistan); 2007: 108 ( Turkey).— Oehlke 2012: 597 (mediteraneus [!]; Kyrgyzstan).— Gusenleitner 2013: 28 ( Saudi Arabia).— Baldock 2014: 350 (Mallorca), 389 (Ibiza).— Gereys 2016: 116 (key), 130, figs. 31a, 32f, 34b, 35g, photos 24–25a ( France).— Kumar et al. 2017: 493 (list).— Rafi et al. 2017: 12 (list).— Rahmani et al. 2020: 40 ( Iran records).— Carpenter & Gadallah 2020: 197 (list).— Dal Pos et al. 2022: 15 (specs.).

Eumenes mediterraneus anatolicus Giordani Soika 1952 [1951]: 376, male, female (in subgenus Eumenes )—[ Turkey] “Gyaur daglari” (lectotype male Praha); also from another locality.— Gusenleitner 1972: 93.—van der Vecht & Fischer 1972: 129 (cat.).— Giordani Soika 1973a: 39 (designation of lectotype).— Gusenleitner 1997: 137, 144 (syn. of E. mediterraneus mediterraneus Kriechbaumer ).— Borsato & Ratti 1999: 84 (anatolicas [!]; syn. of E. mediterraneus mediterraneus Kriechbaumer ).— Dal Pos et al. 2022: 81 (specs.).

Eumenes Houskai Giordani Soika 1952: 17 , fig. 1 (1, 4, 5), male (in subgenus Eumenes )—“ Palestina: Gerusalemme” (Praha).— Gusenleitner 1972: 77 (key), 95.—van der Vecht & Fischer 1972: 128 (cat.).— Giordani Soika 1973a: 40.— Gusenleitner 1997: 137, 144 (syn. of E. mediterraneus mediterraneus Kriechbaumer ).— Borsato & Ratti 1999: 79 (syn. of E. mediterraneus mediterraneus Kriechbaumer ).

Eumenes mediterraneus superbus ; Blüthgen 1955: 411; 1956, Dt. Entomol. Z. (N. F.) 3: 70.—van der Vecht & Fischer 1972: 130 (cat.).

Eumenes spec. ; Giordani Soika 1958 [ 1957]: 206.

Eumenes mediterraneus var. opacus Gusenleitner 1972: 92 , male, female—“Mut, Sertavul, 1300 m, Türkei ” (holotype male Linz); also from another locality. Unavailable under Art.45.6.3.

Distr.: France; Spain; Portugal; Italy, including Sardinia; Switzerland; Germany; Austria; Serbia; Albania; Bulgaria; Greece; Turkey; Syria; Lebanon; Israel; Palestine; Jordan; Egypt; Sudan; Tunisia; Morocco; Iraq; Saudi Arabia; United Arab Emirates; Yemen; Iran; Afghanistan; Pakistan; Russia; Kyrgyzstan; Mongolia; adventive in Tahiti.