Taxonomic notes on the Vespinae of Yunnan (Hymenoptera, Vespidae)

Title Variants

Alternative: Vespinae of Yunnan

Related Titles

Series: American Museum novitates, no. 3709

By

Carpenter, James M. (James Michael), 1956-
Dvořák, L. (Libor)
Kojima, Jun-Ichi, 1955-
Nguyen, Lien P. T.
Perrard, Adrien
Pickett, Kurt M

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

[New York], American Museum of Natural History, c2011

Notes

Caption title.

"April 19, 2011."

In recent years, five new species of Vespinae have been described from Yunnan Province, China. A thorough assessment of these taxa, including study of color differences and compilation of measurements of specimens from six entomological collections, shows that the new taxa are merely variants of existing, nominal species. Thus, all five are synonymized here, as follows: Vespa hekouensis Dong and Wang, and Vespa maguanensis Dong = Vespa analis Fabricius; Vespula yulongensis Dong and Wang = Vespula flaviceps (Smith); Vespula nujiangensis Dong and Wang = Vespula orbata (du Buysson); and Vespula gongshanensis Dong = Vespula rufa (Linnaeus), all new synonymy. The synonymies bring the current number of vespine species recognized worldwide to 67.

Subjects

China , Classification , Insects , Vespa , Vespidae , Vespula , Wasps , Yunnan Sheng

Call Number

QL1 .A436 no.3709 2011

Language

English

Identifiers

OCLC: 713367423