Vespula rufa

Familia: Vespidae
Subfamilia: Vespinae
Genus: Vespula
Species: Vespula rufa
Subspecies (3): V. r. grahami – V. r. rufa – V. r. schrenckii

Vespula rufa (Linnaeus, 1758)

Vespa rufa Linnaeus, 1758

• Vespa schrenckii Radoszkowski, 1861
• Vespa sibirica André, 1884
• Vespula grahami Archer, 1981
• Vespula obscura Lee, 1986
• Vespula yichunensis Lee, 1986^[1]
• Vespula yulongensis Dong & Wang, 2002^[2]

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• Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio Decima, Reformata. Tomus I. Holmiæ (Stockholm): impensis direct. Laurentii Salvii. 824 pp. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542 BHL Reference page. 

• Archer, M.E. 2000. A male of Paravespula orbata (du Buysson) (Hym., Vespidae) from Taiwan. Entomologist's monthly magazine 136: 126. Full article (PDF available). Reference page. 
• Carpenter, J.M., Dvořák, L., Kojima, J.-I., Nguyen, L.T.P., Perrard, A. & Pickett, K.M. 2011. Taxonomic notes on the Vespinae of Yunnan (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). American Museum Novitates (3709): 1–10. DOI: 10.1206/3709.2 Reference page. 
• Dong, D.-Z., Liang, X.-C., Wang, Y.-Z. & He, Y.H. 2005. A new species of the genus Vespula (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) from Gongshan Yunnan, China. Entomotaxonomia, 27(1): 65–68. Abstract. Reference page. 
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2019. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Vespula rufa. [accessed on 20 August 2023]
• Taxon: Vespula rufa Catalogue of Life [accessed on 19 August 2023]

1. ↑ [PDF 2,9MB] V. yichunensis is synonym of V. rufa (Carpenter, 1997) ⧼accessed on 20 August 2023⧽
2. ↑ V. yulongensis is synonym of V. rufa (Carpenter, 2015) ⧼accessed on 20 August 2023⧽