Vespula germanica Fabricius 1793

• Main Authors: Rafi, Muhammad Ather, Carpenter Muhammad Qasim, James M., Shehzad, Anjum, Zia, Ahmed, Khan, Muhammad Rafique, Mastoi, Muhammad Ishaque, Naz, Falak, Ilyas, Muhammad, Shah, Mazafar, Bhatti, Abdul Rauf
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2017
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Hymenoptera; Vespidae; Vespula; Vespula germanica; Canada; Norway; New Zealand; Argentina; Iceland
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6008556; https://zenodo.org/record/6008556

Vespula germanica (Fabricius, 1793) Material Examined: PAKISTAN: Punjab: Rawalpindi, 25.iv.06, Leg. Altaf, ♀; Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa: Chitral, 20.vi.08, Leg. A. Zia, 3♀; Hunza, 25.vi.06, Leg. Ishaque, ♀; Gilgit-Baltistan: Gilgit: Phander Lake, 11.vi.08, Leg. Anjum, ♀; (EX. NIM). Remarks: Chaudhry et al. (1966) reported this species from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa: Swat and Kalam. (Dvořák (2007) reported it from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa: Chitral Bamboret valley: Brun, Baluchistan: Ziarat. Mahmood et al. (2012) reported it from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa: Dir, Swat, Chitral, Abbottabad, Mansehra, Baluchistan: Ziarat, Kalat, Gilgit-Baltistan: Daimer, Chillas, Gulmit, Khyber, Khuramabad, Shish kot, Gulkin, Passu, Aliabad, Nagar, Denor, Sost, Misger. Shah (2015) reported it from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa: Abbottabad, Havelian, Ayubia; Mansehra, Balakot and Baffa. Faiz et al. (2016) reported this species from Gilgit-Baltistan: Ghizer, Skardu and Gilgit. Distribution: Austria; Armenia; Algeria; Azores; Albania; Belarus; Belgium; Bulgaria; Canada; China; Croatia; Czech Republic; Denmark; England; France; Germany; Gerogia; Greece; Hungary; Iran; Ireland; Israel; India; Kazahkstan; Korea; Luxembourg; Malta; Morocco; Mongolia; Norway; Netherlands; Pakistan; Poland; Portugal; Russia; Romania; Sweden; Scotland; Slovenia; Spain; Switzerland; Syria; Taiwan; Tajikistan; Turkey; Turkmenistan; Tunisia; Ukraine; Uzbekistan and U.K.; introduced into Ascension Island; Argentina; Australia; Canada; Chile; Iceland; New Zealand; South Africa; U. S. A. (Carpenter & Kojima 1997; Dvořák 2007; Mahmood et al. 2015). : Published as part of Rafi, Muhammad Ather, Carpenter Muhammad Qasim, James M., Shehzad, Anjum, Zia, Ahmed, Khan, Muhammad Rafique, Mastoi, Muhammad Ishaque, Naz, Falak, Ilyas, Muhammad, Shah, Mazafar & Bhatti, Abdul Rauf, 2017, The vespid fauna of Pakistan, pp. 1-28 in Zootaxa 4362 (1) on page 24, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4362.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1076112 : {"references": ["Chaudhry, G. U., Chaudhry, M. I. & Khan, S. M. (1966) Survey of Insect fauna of forests of Pakistan. Pakistan Forest Institute Peshawer, 167 pp.", "Dvorak, L. (2007) The social wasp fauna of Pakistan (Hymenoptera, Vespidae). Linzer Biologische Beitrage, 39 (1), 51 - 55.", "Mahmood, K., Ullah, M., Aziz, A., Hasan, S. A. & Inayatullah, M. (2012) To the knowledge of Vespidae (Hymenoptera) of Pakistan. Zootaxa, 3318, 26 - 50.", "Shah, M. (2015) Biosystematics of wasps species (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) from Hazara Region, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Ph. D Thesis, Hazara University Mansehra, 152 pp.", "Faiz, A., Rafi, M. A., Zia, A., Shah, A., Shah, S. W., Khan, R. U & Saeed, M. (2016) Wasp fauna of (Eumeninae: Vespinae and Polistinae) in forests of Gilgit-Baltistan (Pakistan). Pure and Applied Biology, 5 (4), (accepted). http: // dx. doi. org / 10.19045 / bspab. 2016.50073."]}