Vespula vulgaris (Linnaeus, 1758)

Selis, Marco, Ismael, Halgurd R., Hamad, Mudhafar I., Baiocchi, Daniele & Cilia, Giovanni, 2025, A first update to the vespid fauna of Iraq (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), with description of a new species, Journal of Natural History 59 (13 - 16), pp. 941-981 : 973

Vespula vulgaris (Linnaeus, 1758)

Literature records

Khalaf (1961); Derwesh (1965).

Remarks

Augul (2017) reports further findings of this species from Solaf [Sulev], but these records belong in fact to Vespula germanica , as visible from the pictures provided.

Distribution

United Kingdom, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France (including Corsica), Spain (including Balearic Islands), Portugal, Italy (including Sardinia and Sicily), Switzerland, Austria, Lichtenstein, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Albania, North Macedonia, Greece, Bulgaria, Moldova, Romania, Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Syria, Israel, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, India, Buthan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, China, Korea, Japan; introduced into Iceland, New Zealand, Australia, French Polynesia, Chile, Argentina ( Rahmani et al. 2020).