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Belonogaster adenensis Giordani Soika

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Vespoidea; Family: Vespidae; Subfamily: Polistinae; Genus: Belonogaster)

Belonogaster abyssinicus adenensis Giordani Soika, 1957. Holotype: British Museum (Natural History), London. . Type Locality: Jebel Jihaf, Southern Yemen.

Belonogaster adenensis somaliensis Richards, 1982. Holotype: British Museum (Natural History), London. Type Locality: Somalia. (Synonymy by Dvorak & Carpenter, 2010)

Distribution

Ethiopia, Somalia, Yemen.

Biology

 

References

Dvořák, L. & J. M. Carpenter 2010. New records of vespid wasps from Yemen with synonymy in Belonogaster (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Polistinae and Eumeninae). Linzer Biologische Beiträge 42 (1): 561-563.

Richards, O.W. 1982. A revision of the genus Belonogaster de Saussure (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History, Entomology 44: 31–114.

Credits

 

Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2024. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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