Vespa orientalis Linnaeus, 1771

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 : 972

Vespa orientalis Linnaeus, 1771

Literature records

Morice (1921); Derwesh (1965), mentioning ‘B. M. list No. 70’; Swailem et al. (1974); Abdul-Rassoul (1976); Al-Ali (1977); Augul (2016, 2017); Al-Saffar and Augul (2021).

Material examined

IRAQ: Kurdistan, Duhok, 5 km E of Ashewa, Mt . Gara , 1750–1950 m, 37.0158°N 43.3505°E, 3–6 June 2023, 1 ♀ ( MSVI) .

Distribution

Algeria, Libya, Egypt, Ethiopia, Somalia, Chad, Sudan, Malta, Italy (including Sardinia and Sicily), Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Albania, North Macedonia, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece (including Crete), Cyprus, Russia, Turkey, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, United Arab Emirates, Bahrein, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, introduced into United Kingdom, Belgium, Czech Republic, Spain, China, Chile, Mexico, United States ( Carpenter and Gadallah 2020).