Eumenes coronatus (Panzer, 1799)

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 coronatus (Panzer, 1799)

Figs 1a , 40-46 , 47-54

Vespa coronata Panzer, 1799: (6) 64: 12, pl. 12.

Eumenes (Eumenes) coronatus coronatus ; Gereys 2016: 128-129; van der Vecht and Fischer 1972: 126 (literature before 1972); Dal Pos et al. 2022: 14.

Eumenes coronatus ; Tobias and Kurzenko 1978: 160; Hensen 1985: 45; Vergés Serra 1985: 145; Castro 1997: 4; Sanza 1997: 439;; Schmid-Egger and Schmidt 2002: 18; Schmid-Egger 2004: 72, 2010: 23; Smit et al. 2004: 327; Borsato and Turrisi 2004: 143; Woydak 2006: 40-41; Castro and Sanza 2009: 266; Abenius 2012: 270; Arens 2012: 487; Gusenleitner 2013: 26; Neumeyer 2014: 367; 2019: 270; Fateryga et al. 2020: 95; Baldock et al. 2020: 43.

Eumenes (Eumenes) coronatus ; Castro 1997: 4; Fateryga 2017: 181, 2018: 204-205.

Eumenes coronatus coronatus ; Gusenleitner 1972: 85, 1999: 570; Borsato 2006: 142; Gogala 2022: 26.

Eumenes atricornis Fabricius, 1804: 289; Gusenleitner 1972: 85 (as synonym of E. coronatus ); van der Vecht and Fischer 1972: 126 (id.); Gereys 2016: 128 (id.); Fateryga 2017: 181 (id.).

Eumenes costata (!) Lucciani, 1845: CX; Fateryga 2017: 181 (as synonym of E. coronatus ).

Eumenis (!) Eumenis mediterranea var. neesi Kriechbaumer, 1879: 88; Gusenleitner 1972: 85 (as synonym of E. coronatus ); van der Vecht and Fischer 1972: 126 (id.); Fateryga 2017: 181 (id.).

Eumenes coarctatus var. opulenta Blüthgen, 1938: 482-483; van der Vecht and Fischer 1972: 126 (as synonym of E. coronatus ); Gereys 2016: 128 (id.); Fateryga 2017: 181 (id.).

Eumenes coarctatus detonsus Blüthgen, 1943: 297; Gusenleitner 1972: 86-87, 1999: 570, 2013: 27; Fateryga 2017: 181 (as synonym of E. coronatus ).

Eumenes (Eumenes) coronatus detonsus ; van der Vecht and Fischer 1972: 127; Dal Pos et al. 2022: 15.

Eumenes coarctatus ab. nigrotibia Hellén, 1944: 11; van der Vecht and Fischer 1972: 126 (as synonym of E. coronatus ); Gereys 2016: 128 (id.); Fateryga 2017: 181 (id.).

Eumenes coarctatus var. niger Szulczewski, 1950: 8 (invalid homonym; as synonym of E. coronatus ); Gereys 2016: 128 (id.); Fateryga 2017: 181 (id.).

Eumenes coarctatus ibericus Blüthgen, 1956: 2; Gusenleitner 1972: 85, 1999: 571; van der Vecht and Fischer 1972: 127; Castro 1997: 4 (as synonym of E. coronatus ); Gereys 2016: 128 (id.); Fateryga 2017: 181 (id.).

Eumenes coronatus corruetus Gusenleitner, 1972: 87, 1999: 570-571, 2013: 26; Fateryga 2017: 181 (as synonym of E. coronatus ).

Eumenes (Eumenes) coronatus corruetus ; Dal Pos et al. 2022: 15.

Notes.

Males from the Balkan Peninsula have the apical half of antennal hook distinctly flattened, different from the wider apical half in Central European males (Fig. 54 ).

Distribution.

Rather common in most of Europe (including southern Scandinavia; Abenius 2012), but absent in the UK. In Switzerland up to 1640 m altitude, but in Peloponnesus (S Greece) not found above 1200 m altitude ( Arens 2012). Outside Europe in Israel, Turkey, Iran and in East Palaearctic region up to Mongolia, China, and Korea.

Figures

Figure 1. Showing dark (1 a) and pale (1 b) type of species 1 a Eumenes coronatus (Panzer), female, Finland, habitus lateral 1 b E. pomiformis (Fabricius), female, Bulgaria, habitus dorsal. Photographs: C. van Achterberg.

Figures 40 - 46. Eumenes coronatus (Panzer), France, female 40 metasoma lateral 41 first metasomal tergite dorsal 42 first tergite ventral 43 second metasomal tergite dorsal 44 head anterior 45 head and mesosoma lateral 46 head and mesosoma dorsal.

Figures 47 - 54. Eumenes coronatus (Panzer), Spain, male 47 metasoma lateral 48 first metasomal tergite dorsal 49 first tergite ventral 50 second metasomal tergite dorsal 51 antenna anterior 52 head anterior 53 head and mesosoma lateral 54 apical hook of antenna lateral.