Vespula flaviceps

Mahmood, Khalid, Ullah, Mishkat, Aziz, Abdul, Hasan, Syed Azhar & Inayatullah, Mian, 2012, To the knowledge of Vespidae (Hymenoptera) of Pakistan, Zootaxa 3318, pp. 26-50 : 31

Vespula flaviceps (Smith in Horne & Smith, 1870)

Figs 5 (a–d)

Female: Body length 8–9 mm (n = 6), fore wing length 8–10 mm (n = 6).

Material examined. PAKISTAN: Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa: Swat, Usho, 4Ψ, 10.viii.1987, Afzal; Swat, Bhan, 1Ψ, 10.viii.1987, Batgram, 1Ψ, 24.vii.1988, Abro.

Distribution. China, India, Japan, Korea, Myanmar, Nepal, Russia (Primorskii Krai), Thailand, Taiwan and Pakistan ( Carpenter & Kojima 1997; Dvořák 2007).

Figures

FIGURE 5. Vespula flaviceps. a, habitus; b, head, frontal view; c, head and mesosoma, dorsal view; d, metasoma, dorsal view.