Vespula germanica (Fabricius, 1793)

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

Vespula germanica (Fabricius, 1793)

Literature records

Khalaf (1958); Derwesh (1965); Al-Ali (1977); Augul (2017).

Material examined

IRAQ: Kurdistan, Duhok, Bnavi village , 1498 m, 37.2477°N 43.3791°E, 7 June 2024, 2 ♀ ( MSVI) .

Distribution

United Kingdom, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, France, Italy (including Sardinia and Sicily), Switzerland, Austria, Lichtenstein, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Romania, Moldova, Bulgaria, Albania, North Macedonia, Greece, Poland, Lithuania, Estonia, Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, Spain (including Balearic and Canary Islands), Portugal (including Azores), Malta, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, India, Mongolia, China, Korea, introduced into Iceland, New Zealand, Australia, Ascension Islands, South Africa, Chila, Argentina, Canada, United States ( Rahmani et al. 2020).