Eumenes tripunctatus (Christ, 1791)

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 tripunctatus (Christ, 1791)

Figs 244-252 , 253-261

Sphex tripunctatus Christ, 1791: 317 (type series lost).

Eumenes (Eumenes) tripunctatus ; van der Vecht and Fischer 1972: 134; Gusenleitner 1972: 112-113; Fateryga 2017: 182, 2018: 209; Fateryga et al. 2020: 96-97.

Eumenes tripunctatus ; Tobias and Kurzenko 1978: 160; Fateryga 2010: 78.

Vespa trimaculata Lichtenstein, 1796: 202; van der Vecht and Fischer 1972: 134 (as synonym of E. tripunctatus ; literature before 1972).

Eumenes venusta Fischer-Waldheim, 1843: 1, pl. 122; van der Vecht and Fischer 1972: 134 (as synonym of E. tripunctatus ).

Note.

Conspicuous orange species only recently known to occur in Europe ( Fateryga 2010, 2017, 2018; Fateryga et al. 2020).

Distribution.

Central Asia, European Russia, Ukraine (Crimea).

Figures

Figures 244 - 252. Eumenes tripunctatus (Christ), Kazakhstan, female 244 metasoma lateral 245 first metasomal tergite dorsal 246 first tergite ventral 247 head and mesosoma dorsal 248 second metasomal tergite dorso-lateral 249 head anterior 250 head and mesosoma lateral 251 detail head and propleuron lateral 252 hind tarsal claw.

Figures 253 - 261. Eumenes tripunctatus (Christ), Kazakhstan, male 253 metasoma lateral 254 first metasomal tergite dorsal 255 first tergite ventral 256 head and mesosoma lateral 257 apical hook of antenna lateral 258 head anterior 259 head and propleuron lateral. 260 second metasomal tergite dorso-lateral 261 antenna.