Vespa dybowskii Andre
- 1. USDA-APHIS-PPQ, Science and Technology (S & T), Sacramento, CA,
- 2. Department of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY,
- 3. Bohart Museum of Entomology, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, and
Description
Vespa dybowskii André
Figs. 11b, 11d, and 29
Vespa dybowskii ‘Rad. in litt’. André, 1884: 582. Holotype female; Russia: ‘ Sibérie’ (PARIS?).
Vespa dubowskii; Dalla Torre, 1904: 65. Misspelling of Vespa dybowskii André.
Vespa walkeri du Buysson, 1905 (1904): 539. Syntype female, male; China: ‘ Haï-ning’ (LONDON-NHM).
Vespa dybowskii mutata Ma, 1937: 30. Holotype male; China: ‘ Hangchow’ (HANGZHOU, destroyed?).
Distribution. Myanmar, China (Tibet, Zhejiang), Russia (Siberia, Primorsky), Korea, Japan.
Discussion. This species is relatively rare in collections. It is a nest parasite of Vespa crabro and V. simillima. Vespa dybowskii queens take over the nests of these species and use the host workers to raise their own brood (Martin et al. 2008)
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- LONDON-NHM
- Family
- Vespidae
- Genus
- Vespa
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Andre
- Species
- dybowskii
- Taxon rank
- species
References
- Martin, S. J., J. Takahashi, M. Ono, and F. P. Drijhout. 2008. Is the social parasite Vespa dybowskii using chemical transparency to get her eggs accepted? J. Ins. Physiol. 54: 700 - 707.