Eumenes pedunculatus (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 pedunculatus (Panzer, 1799)

Figs 132-139 , 140-149

Vespa pedunculata Panzer, 1799: (6) 63: 8, pl. 8.

Eumenes (Eumenes) pedunculatus pedunculatus ; van der Vecht and Fischer 1972: 131 (literature before 1972); Vergés Serra 1985: 148; Castro 1997: 4; Sanza 1997: 455; Schmid-Egger 2004: 72; Frommer 2013: 19; Gereys 2016: 135; Dal Pos et al. 2022: 16.

Eumenes pedunculatus ; Tobias and Kurzenko 1978: 160; Hensen 1985: 45; Schmid-Egger and Schmidt 2002: 18; Smit et al. 2004: 327; Woydak 2006: 44-46; Castro and Sanza 2009: 266; Schmid-Egger 2010: 23, 2011: 44; Abenius 2012: 273; Arens 2012: 487-488; Neumeyer 2014: 367, 2019: 273; Fateryga et al. 2020: 96; Baldock et al. 2020: 44.

Eumenes pedunculatus pedunculatus ; Gusenleitner 1972: 81-82; Gogala 2022: 29-30.

Eumenes marginella ? Eumenes marginella Herrich-Schäffer, 1841: 44, pl. 179-8.

Eumenes Eumenes marginellus ? Eumenes (Eumenes) marginellus ; van der Vecht and Fischer 1972: 134 (as unidentified species; literature before 1972).

Eumenes obscurus André, 1884: 636-637. Syn. nov.

Eumenes andrei Dalla Torre, 1894: 17 (new name for junior homonym E. obscurus André); van der Vecht and Fischer 1972: 134 (literature before 1972). Syn. nov.

Eumenes eburneopictus Giordani Soika, 1940: 97; Fateryga 2017: 182 (as synonym of E. pedunculatus ).

Eumenes (Eumenes) eburneopictus ; van der Vecht and Fischer 1972: 127.

Eumenes pedunculatus eburneopictus ; Gusenleitner 1999: 572.

Eumenes pedunculatus turanus Blüthgen, 1943: 302; Gusenleitner 1972: 82, 1999: 573; Fateryga 2017: 182 (as synonym of E. pedunculatus ).

Eumenes (Eumenes) pedunculatus turanus ; van der Vecht and Fischer 1972: 131; Dal Pos et al. 2022: 16.

Eumenes pedunculata var. lapponica Hellén, 1944: 11; van der Vecht and Fischer 1972: 131 (as synonym of E. pedunculatus ); Gusenleitner 1972: 81 (id.); Gereys 2016: 135 (id.); Fateryga 2017: 182 (id.).

Eumenes karafutonis Yamane, 1977: 61-62; Fateryga 2017: 182 (as synonym of E. pedunculatus ).

Notes.

The depository of the female holotype of E. obscurus André (= E. andrei Dalla Torre) is unknown, but the extensive description allows identification. The robust posterior part of the first tergite (in dorsal view campaniform), the entirely dark antenna, the black clypeus except for a yellow dorsal linear patch and the shiny and very finely punctate second tergite points to E. pedunculatus (Panzer). The type series of E. marginellus is lost; the more or less yellow scape, the black scutellum, the narrow yellow patch of the pronotum and narrow yellow posterior patch of the first tergite are similar to some examined specimens of E. pedunculatus .

Distribution.

Widely distributed in Europe but relatively rare in collections from NW and S Europe (e.g., only Eumenes sp. known from Norway, absent from UK and Corsica, in S Europe rare and restricted to montane habitats ( Arens 2012; Gereys 2016)). Outside Europe known from the East Palaearctic region up to Japan and Korea. Associated with Calluna - Pinus heaths ( Woydak 2006) and occurring up to 1850 m altitude in Switzerland ( Neumeyer 2019) and 2550 m in Spain ( Gereys 2016).

Figures

Figures 132 - 139. Eumenes pedunculatus (Panzer), Netherlands (Witteveen), female 132 metasoma lateral 133 first metasomal tergite dorsal 134 first tergite ventral 135 head and mesosoma dorsal 136 antenna anterior 137 head anterior 138 head and pronotum lateral 139 second tergite latero-dorsal.

Figures 140 - 149. Eumenes pedunculatus (Panzer), Netherlands (Helenaveen), male 140 metasoma lateral 141 first metasomal tergite dorsal 142 first tergite ventral 143 head and mesosoma dorsal 144 second tergite dorsal 145 scape anterior 146 head anterior 147 head and mesosoma lateral 148 antenna anterior 149 apical hook of antenna lateral.