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Vespa vivax Smith 1870
- 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 vivax Smith
Figs. 13d and 53
Vespa vivax Smith (in Horne and Smith), 1870: 190. Holotype female; India: Binsar, ‘ Binsur, Kumaon’ (LONDON-NHM).
Vespa velutina var. mediozonalis Pérez, 1910: 14. Holotype female; India: Sikkim (PARIS).
Vespa wilemani Meade-Waldo, 1911: 104. Holotype female; Taiwan: ‘ Formosa’ (LONDON-NHM).
Distribution. India, Nepal, Myanmar, Thailand, China (Sichuan, Yunnan, Tibet), Taiwan.
Discussion. Little is known about this south Asian Vespa species. In Taiwan, nests have been found in montane regions at elevations between 1,500 and 2,500 m (Archer 1994).
Notes
Published as part of Smith-Pardo, Allan H., Carpenter, James M. & Kimsey, Lynn, 2020, The Diversity of Hornets in the Genus Vespa (Hymenoptera: Vespidae; Vespinae), Their Importance and Interceptions in the United States, pp. 1-27 in Insect Systematics and Diversity 4 (3) on page 23, DOI: 10.1093/isd/ixaa006, http://zenodo.org/record/3826921
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Vespidae
- Genus
- Vespa
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Smith
- Species
- vivax
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Vespa vivax Smith, 1870 sec. Smith-Pardo, Carpenter & Kimsey, 2020
References
- Archer, M. E. 1994. Taxonomy, distribution and nesting biology of Vespa bicolor group. Entomol. Monthly Mag. 130: 149 - 158.