Vespa matsumurai Sonan 1935

Kojima, Jun-Ichi, Saito, Fuki & Nguyen, Lien Thi Phuong, 2011, On the species-group taxa of Taiwanese social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) described and / or treated by J. Sonan, Zootaxa 2920, pp. 42-64 : 60

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.201805
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6191396
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scientific name	Vespa matsumurai Sonan 1935
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Vespa matsumurai Sonan 1935 View in CoL (= Vespa ducalis Smith 1852 )

Type material. Sonan (1935b), having compared with Vespa ducalis var. pulchra , described this nominal taxon from Tokyo, Japan. He gave the same collection data “Ƥ, Tokyo, Oct. 13 1932 (Y. Nakamura)” for the holotype and the paratype. In TARI, there are the following three female specimens: 1 Ƥ labeled “Nishigahara / Tokyo / 13 X. 1932 / Y. Nakamura”, Type label, “ Vespa / matsumurai / Sonan / DET. J. SONAN ”, and “164”; 1 Ƥ labeled “Nishigahara / Tokyo / 13 X. 1932 / Y. Nakamura”, Paratype label, “ Vespa / matsumurai / Sonan / DET. J. SONAN ”, and “165”; and 1 Ƥ labeled “ISE / 1928 / J. YAMANOUCHI”, “ Vespa / matsumurai / Sonan / DET. J. SONAN ”, Paratype label, and “166”. As Sonan (1935b) did not mention the specimen from Ise, the specimen does not have any type status.