Vespa binghami du Buysson 1905

• Main Authors: Smith-Pardo, Allan H., Carpenter, James M., Kimsey, Lynn
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2020
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Hymenoptera; Vespidae; Vespa; Vespa binghami; Archer; Sakhalin
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3847053; https://zenodo.org/record/3847053

Vespa binghami du Buysson Figs. 2c and 21 Vespa binghami du Buysson, 1905 (1904): 523. Lectotype female (designated by van der Vecht, 1959: 210); Myanmar: Toungoo, ‘Taungoo Hills’ (PARIS). Vespa suprunenkoi Birula, 1925 (1924): 92. Lectotype female (designated by Kurzenko, 2004: 197); Korea: Sakhalin Is. (ST. PETERSBURG). Distribution . India, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, China, Russia, Korea. Discussion . This is a high altitude species, found between 200 m and 2,000 m (Archer 1999). Zhang (1989) reported the presence of Vespa binghami in Miocene deposits in Shandong, China, but this identification needs to be verified. : Published as part of Smith-Pardo, Allan H., Carpenter, James M. & Kimsey, Lynn, 2020, The Diversity of Hornets in the Genus Vespa (Hymenoptera: Vespidae; Vespinae), Their Importance and Interceptions in the United States, pp. 1-27 in Insect Systematics and Diversity 4 (3) on page 10, DOI: 10.1093/isd/ixaa006, http://zenodo.org/record/3826921 : {"references": ["Archer, M. E. 1999. Taxonomy, distribution and nesting biology of Vespa binghami, V. basalis, V. variabilis, V. fervida, V. luctuosa, V. multimaculata and V. bellicosa. Entomol. Monthly Mag. 135: 43 - 50.", "Zhang, J. F. 1989. Fossil insects from Shanwang, Shandong, China. Shandong Science and Technology, Shandong, China, Pub. 551 pp."]}