Discoelius
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Ordo: Hymenoptera
Familia: Vespidae
Name
Discoelius Latreille – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Discoelius Latreille, 1809: 140; Saussure 1852[1]: 24; Yasumatsu 1934[2]: 3; Vecht and Fischer 1972: 2; Li 1985[3]: 80; Carpenter 1986[4]: 68; Vecht and Carpenter 1990: 19; Yamane 1990[5]: 22; Yamane 1996[6]: 111; Kim 2005[7]: 111.
Type species
Vespa zonalis Panzer, 1801.
Diagnosis
Mandible short: not distinctly crossing each other, just a small apical portion overlapping. Clypeus transverse, with widely rounded or somewhat truncate apical margin. Antennal scape somewhat depressed in both sexes. Vertex and gena more or less convex. Mesoscutum with notaulices for its whole length. Metasomal segment 1 less than half as broad as segment 2; both terga 1 and 2 petiolate. Mid tibia with two apical spurs (Kim 2005[7]).
Distribution
China (Hebei, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Chongqing, Fujian, Guangxi, Yunnan, Hunan, Liaoning, Shaanxi, Guangdong, Beijing, Inner Mongolia, Taiwan); Palaearctic and Oriental regions.
Taxon Treatment
- Zhou, X; Chen, B; Li, T; 2013: Two new species of the genus Discoelius Latreille (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Eumeninae) from China, with a key to the Chinese species Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 32: 45-54. doi
Other References
- ↑ Saussure H (1852–1853) Études sur la famille des Vespides I: Monographie des Guépes solitaires, ou de la tribu des Eumèniens. Cherbuliez, Genève, Masson, Paris, 268 pp.[in French]
- ↑ Yasumatsu K (1934) On the genus Discoelius of eastern Asia, with a list of the species of the genus of the world (Hymenoptera: Eumenoidae). Mushi 7: 3-19.
- ↑ Li T (1985) Economic insect fauna of China. Fasc. 30. Hymenoptera: Vespoidea. Science Press, Beijing, China, 159 pp.[in Chinese]
- ↑ Carpenter J (1986) A synonymic generic checklist of the Eumenidae (Hymenoptera: Vespdae). Psyche 93: 61-90. doi: 10.1155/1986/12489
- ↑ Yamane S (1990) A revision of the Japanese Eumenidae (Hymenoptera: Vespoidea). Insecta Matsumurana, New Series 43: 1-189.
- ↑ Yamane S (1996) The genus Dis'coelius Latreille (Hymenoptera: Eumenidae) in Taiwan. Journal of Taiwan Museum 49: 111-115.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Kim J (2005) Taxonomic review on the far eastern species of the genus Discoelius Latreille (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae). Entomological Research(Seoul) 35: 111-116. doi: 10.1111/j.1748-5967.2005.tb00145.x