Eumenes sardous Guiglia, 1951

van Achterberg, Cornelis, Smit, John T. & Ljubomirov, Toshko, 2023, Review of the European Eumenes Latreille (Hymenoptera, Vespidae) using morphology and DNA barcodes, with an illustrated key to species, ZooKeys 1143, pp. 93-163 : 93

Eumenes sardous Guiglia, 1951

Figs 189-197 , 198-207

Eumenes sardous Guiglia, 1951: 27; Gusenleitner 1972: 108, 1999: 573; Borsato 2006: 143.

Eumenes (Eumenes) sardous ; van der Vecht and Fischer 1972: 133 (literature before 1972); Gereys 2016: 137; Dal Pos et al. 2022: 16.

Notes.

Similar to E. subpomiformis according to Blüthgen (1954) and Gusenleitner (1972), which especially counts for the males. We refrain from synonymising this species till we have more data (COI, biology), also because Sardinia and Corsica are known to have a relative high degree of endemicity.

Distribution.

An endemic species of Sardinia (Italy) and Corsica (France), occurring from sea level up to 1600 m altitude in Corsica ( Gereys 2016).

Figures

Figures 189 - 197. Eumenes sardous Guiglia, France (Corsica), female 189 metasoma lateral 190 first metasomal tergite dorsal 191 first tergite ventral 192 head and mesosoma dorsal 193 second tergite latero-dorsal 194 head anterior 195 head and mesosoma lateral 196 antenna anterior 197 hind tarsal claw.

Figures 198 - 207. Eumenes sardous Guiglia, France (Corsica), male 198 metasoma lateral 199 first metasomal tergite dorsal 200 first tergite ventral 201 head and mesosoma dorsal 202 second tergite dorso-lateral 203 head anterior 204 head and mesosoma lateral 205 antenna anterior 206 apical hook of antenna lateral 207 id. of other antenna.