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: 127 (literature before 1972).
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: 15.
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: 127 (as synonym of
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, 1938: 464.
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: 127.
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<bibRefCitation author="Giordani Soika, A" journalOrPublisher="In: Minelli A, Ruffo S, La Posta S (Eds) Checklist delle specie della fauna Italiana" pageId="0" pageNumber="93" pagination="1 - 9" refId="B47" refString="Giordani Soika, A, Borsato, W, 1995. Hymenoptera Vespoidea. In: Minelli A, Ruffo S, La Posta S (Eds) Checklist delle specie della fauna Italiana 103: 1 - 9" title="Hymenoptera Vespoidea." volume="103" year="1995">Giordani Soika and Borsato 1995</bibRefCitation>
: 7;
<bibRefCitation author="Gusenleitner, J" journalOrPublisher="Linzer Biologische Beitrage" pageId="0" pageNumber="93" pagination="561 - 584" refId="B52" refString="Gusenleitner, J, 1999. Bestimmungstabellen mittel- und suedeuropaeischer Eumeniden (Vespoidea, Hymenoptera) Teil 11. Die Gattungen Discoelius Latreille 1809, Eumenes Latreille 1802, Katamenes Meade-Waldo 1910, Delta Saussure 1855, Ischnogasteroides Magretti 1884 und Pareumenes Saussure 1855. Linzer Biologische Beitrage 31 (2): 561 - 584" title="Bestimmungstabellen mittel- und suedeuropaeischer Eumeniden (Vespoidea, Hymenoptera) Teil 11. Die Gattungen Discoelius Latreille 1809, Eumenes Latreille 1802, Katamenes Meade-Waldo 1910, Delta Saussure 1855, Ischnogasteroides Magretti 1884 und Pareumenes Saussure 1855." volume="31" year="1999">Gusenleitner 1999</bibRefCitation>
: 571,
<bibRefCitation author="Gusenleitner, J" journalOrPublisher="Linzer Biologische Beitrage" pageId="0" pageNumber="93" pagination="5 - 107" refId="B53" refString="Gusenleitner, J, 2013. Die Gattungen der Eumeninae im Nahen Osten, in Nordafrika und in Arabien (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae). Linzer Biologische Beitrage 45 (1): 5 - 107" title="Die Gattungen der Eumeninae im Nahen Osten, in Nordafrika und in Arabien (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae)." volume="45" year="2013">2013</bibRefCitation>
: 27;
<bibRefCitation author="Borsato, W" journalOrPublisher="Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Venezia" pageId="0" pageNumber="93" pagination="127 - 150" refId="B14" refString="Borsato, W, Turrisi, GF, 2004. Contributo alla conoscenza degli Eumenidae di Sicilia (Hymenoptera, Vespoidea). Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Venezia 55: 127 - 150" title="Contributo alla conoscenza degli Eumenidae di Sicilia (Hymenoptera, Vespoidea)." volume="55" year="2004">Borsato and Turrisi 2004</bibRefCitation>
: 144;
<bibRefCitation author="Borsato, W" journalOrPublisher="Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Venezia" pageId="0" pageNumber="93" pagination="123 - 147" refId="B13" refString="Borsato, W, 2006. Contributo alla conoscenza degli Eumenidae di Sardegna e note sulla fauna corsa (Hymenoptera, Vespoidea). Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Venezia 57: 123 - 147" title="Contributo alla conoscenza degli Eumenidae di Sardegna e note sulla fauna corsa (Hymenoptera, Vespoidea)." volume="57" year="2006">Borsato 2006</bibRefCitation>
: 142.
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<bibRefCitation DOI="https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5137.1.1" author="Dal Pos, D" journalOrPublisher="Zootaxa" pageId="0" pageNumber="93" pagination="1 - 111" refId="B21" refString="Dal Pos, D, Carpenter, JM, Uliana, M, 2022. The Giordani Soika collection of Eumeninae at the Natural History Museum of Venice Giancarlo Ligabue: Catalogue of species and type specimens (Insecta, Hymenoptera, Vespidae). Zootaxa 5137 (1): 1 - 111, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5137.1.1" title="The Giordani Soika collection of Eumeninae at the Natural History Museum of Venice Giancarlo Ligabue: Catalogue of species and type specimens (Insecta, Hymenoptera, Vespidae)." url="https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5137.1.1" volume="5137" year="2022">Dal Pos et al. 2022</bibRefCitation>
: 15.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="93">Notes.</paragraph>
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is similarly coloured as
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, 1938 from Asia Minor, but
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has the yellow stripe of the eye incision narrow or absent (wide in
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) and the clypeus sparser setose (densely silvery setose in
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). Males can be separated by the shape of the antennal hook (in ventral view normal in
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and widened in
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) and sculpture of fifth sternite (distinctly punctate in
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and punctulate in
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). Typical
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has the apical lamella of the second tergite yellow and in
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light brown or yellowish (Fig.
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); Sardinia, Spain and Portugal, N Africa) to blackish brown (Italy, N Macedonia, Greece, Bulgaria, Turkey, but sometimes also pale brown (Fig.
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);
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already mentioned the variability of this character for
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in Asia. The separation of
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from
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is mostly based on colour differences and, therefore, may be problematic. In general, females of
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have a more robust first tergite, including the petiolate part and males have the antennal hook more curved than in
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.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="93">Distribution.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="93">North Africa, South Europe (*Spain, *Portugal, Italy (Sardinia, Sicily), *N Macedonia, *Bulgaria, *Greece) and *Turkey.</paragraph>
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