Title
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
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