Vespa wilemani Meade-Waldo 1911
Description
Vespa wilemani Meade-Waldo 1911 [Vespa vivax Smith 1870]
Sonan (1929: 147) listed the following four Ƥ under V. wilemani: 2 Ƥ, Rantaizan (6000 ft), 20.V.1928 (J. Sonan); Ƥ, Arisan (4600–7600 ft) 22.IV.1917 (T. Shiraki, S. Sonan); Ƥ, Karenko (4000–8000 ft), 20.VIII. [probably a typo of VII] – 4.VIII.1919 (T. Okuni, J. Sonan, K. Miyake, M. Yoshino). We located all of them in TARI. Sonan (1929) mentioned that “this species [V. w i l e m a n i] had been described as a new species by Meade-Waldo based on a single specimen collected by Mr. Wileman in Taiwan; it was not mentioned where Mr. Wileman had collected the wasp, but I think it was probably collected in Rantaizan or Arisan.”
Archer (1989: 34) synonymized V. w i l e m a n i under V. vivax in an ambiguous way, by stating “subspecies: wilemani Meade Waldo 1911. syn. nov.” Later he (Archer 1991, 1994) treated V. wilemani as a color form of V. vi v ax. Vespa vivax shows a disjunct distribution, occurring in the Hymalayan range (from Kashmir to southern Tibet and northern Myanmar) and mountainious areas in the south-western China (Sichuan, Yunnan) and Taiwan.
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Biodiversity
- Family
- Vespidae
- Genus
- Vespa
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Meade-Waldo
- Species
- wilemani
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- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Vespa wilemani Meade-Waldo, 1911 sec. Kojima, Saito & Nguyen, 2011
References
- Meade-Waldo, G. (1911) New species of Diploptera in the collection of the British Museum. Part III. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (8) 7, 98 - 113.
- Horne, C. & Smith, F. (1870) Notes on the habits of some hymenopterous insects from the North-west Province of India, with an appendix, containing descriptions of some new species of Apidae and Vespidae collected by Mr. Horne. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, 7 (3), 161 - 196, pls. 19 - 22.
- Sonan, J. (1929) On Ve sp a from Formosa (1). Transactions of the Natural History Society of Formosa, 19, 136 - 149, pl. 6. (In Japanese).
- Archer, M. E. (1989) A key to the world species of the Vespinae (Hymenoptera). Research Monograph of the College of Ripon and York St. John, 2 (1), 1 - 41.
- Archer, M. E. (1991) The number of species that can be recognised within the genus Ve sp a (Hym., Vespinae). Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, 127, 161 - 164.