Belonogaster brunnea brunnea Ritsema, 1874

Selis, Marco & Longair, Robert W., 2025, New data on the genus Belonogaster de Saussure, with establishment of the atrata species-group (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Polistinae), Zootaxa 5692 (2), pp. 353-368 : 361

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5692.2.8
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17359229
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scientific name	Belonogaster brunnea brunnea Ritsema, 1874
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Belonogaster brunnea brunnea Ritsema, 1874 View in CoL

Belonogaster brunneus Ritsema, 1874: 177 , 202, ♀ – “Neder-Guinea” [labeled “ Congo ” (= Congo River )] ( RMNH).

Belonogaster distinguendus Kohl, 1894: 322 View in CoL , 323 (key), 328, 335, pl. 15 figs 79-81, 94, pl. 16 fig. 98, pl. 17 fig. 141, ♀, ♂ – “Westafrika: Chutes de Samlia , Riv. N. Gamio, Mocquereys Gran Bana” ( lectotype male NHMW).

Material examined. CAMEROON: prov. Sud , Dep. Ocean, ca. 48 km NE Kribi (small river, road N7), 7.II.1995, leg. E. Aistleitner, 1♂ ( OLML) . GUINEA: Monts Nimba , Lola, 7.6943N 8.4018W, 8.VII.2004, leg. M. Halada, 1♂ 2♀ ( OLML) GoogleMaps . IVORY COAST: Man , Mont Tonkoui, 1000-1200 m, 9.II.1998, leg. Kassebeer & Hilger, 1♀ ( MSVI) .

Distribution. Guinea *, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast *, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon *, Bioko, Gabon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Congo, Rwanda, Burundi.