Eumenes mediterraneus

Eumenes mediterraneus is a species of potter wasp in the subfamily Eumeninae of the family Vespidae.[1]

Eumenes mediterraneus
Eumenes mediterraneus. Female
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Vespidae
Genus: Eumenes
Species:
E. mediterraneus
Binomial name
Eumenes mediterraneus

Subspecies
  • Eumenes mediterraneus cypricus Bluethgen, 1938
  • Eumenes mediterraneus mediterraneus Kriechbaumer, 1879

Distribution

This species can be found in most European countries, in the Near East and in North Africa.[2]

Description

Eumenes mediterraneus can reach a length of about 15 millimetres. Body is black with yellow markings. Clypeus is mainly yellow and scutellum has two large spots. Tergite I has a broad apical yellow band. Tergite II has two large yellow bands laterally and a pale and translucent apical lamella. Tergites V and VI have a yellow apical band.[3]

In males antennae are curled at tip. In females the segment between the compound eyes is yellow with black spots in inferior part.[4]

References
  1. Biolib
  2. Fauna europaea
  3. Taxonomic studies on Egyptian Eumenidae
  4. Roohollah Abbasi, Shahrokh Pashaei Rad, Ebrahim Ebrahimi, Masoud Sheidaei Faunistic study of vespid wasps in Zanjan Province (Northwest of Iran) with some ecological measures
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