Misidentification of Vespula alascensis as V. vulgaris in North America (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Vespinae)

Related Titles

Series: American Museum novitates, no. 3690

By

Carpenter, James M. (James Michael), 1956-

Glare, Travis R.

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

New York, NY, American Museum of Natural History, c2010

Notes

Caption title.

"June 25, 2010."

Morphological and molecular-based comparisons of the North American yellowjackets identified as Vespula vulgaris (Linnaeus, 1758) with samples from other parts of the world demonstrate they are not that species. The name Vespula alascensis (Packard, 1870) is applicable to the North American species, new status. Vespa communis de Saussure, 1857, non von Schrank, 1785, is a synonym of Vespula maculifrons (du Buysson, 1905), revised synonymy.

Subjects

Classification , Insects , Nomenclature , North America , Vespula , Vespula alascensis , Wasps

Call Number

QL1 .A436 no.3690 2010

Language

English

Identifiers

OCLC: 645120729