Vespidae (Hymenoptera) of the Pothwar region of Punjab, Pakistan
Author
Siddiqui, Junaid Ali
Author
Bodlah, Imran
Author
Carpenter, James M.
Author
Naeem, Muhammad
Author
Ahmad, Munir
Author
Bodlah, Muhammad Adnan
text
Zootaxa
2015
3914
5
501
524
journal article
42237
10.11646/zootaxa.3914.5.1
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1175-5326
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Eumenes papillarius
(
Christ, 1791
)
(
Fig. 16
)
Sphex papillaria
Christ, 1791
: 325
, pl. 32 fig. 10, locality not mentioned (destroyed).
Eumenes bipunctis
de
Saussure, 1852
: 33
, pl. XI fig. 7, ♀, “L’Europe?” (
lectotype
Genève).
Eumenes bimaculatus
André, 1884
: 645
[♀], “Europe méridionale” (
type
depository unknown).
Eumenes papillarius monticola
Blüthgen, 1956
: 2
, ♂, “
Spain
: Sierra Nevada, Val del Inferno” (Lausanne).
Material examined.
Murree,
24.ix.12
,
2♂
.
Distribution.
Finland
,
Germany
,
Netherlands
,
Belgium
,
France
,
Spain
,
Italy
,
Switzerland
,
Austria
,
Czech Republic
,
Poland
,
Serbia
,
Albania
,
Bulgaria
,
Macedonia
,
Greece
,
Turkey
,
Belarus
,
Ukraine
,
Russia
,
Iran
,
Turkmenistan
, Kazahkstan,
Mongolia
(
Gusenleitner 1972
).
Comments.
Specimens collected from
Pakistan
were compared with the published description of
Eumenes papillarius
Christ
by
Gusenleitner (1972)
. This species is recognized on the basis of clypeus usually with equally short downwardly directed hairs, clypeus wider and in males completely yellow, and. interantennal area of males with a bright long stripe. This species is reported for the first time from
Pakistan
.