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Vespa
Taxonomy
Vespa was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant. It is the type genus of Vespinae, Vespariae.
It was assigned to Insecta by Geoffroy (1762); to Aculeata by Scopoli (1763); to Synistata by Fabricius (1775); to Hymenoptera by Linnaeus (1758), Linnaeus (1761), Müller (1764), Linnaeus (1767), Forster (1771), Müller (1776), Harris (1780) and Latreille (1796); to Piezata by Fabricius (1798); to Vespariae by Latreille (1802); to Vespidae by Zhang (1989) and Carpenter (1992); and to Vespinae by Statz (1936), Archer (1995), Perrard et al. (2016) and Engel and Nel (2024).
It was assigned to Insecta by Geoffroy (1762); to Aculeata by Scopoli (1763); to Synistata by Fabricius (1775); to Hymenoptera by Linnaeus (1758), Linnaeus (1761), Müller (1764), Linnaeus (1767), Forster (1771), Müller (1776), Harris (1780) and Latreille (1796); to Piezata by Fabricius (1798); to Vespariae by Latreille (1802); to Vespidae by Zhang (1989) and Carpenter (1992); and to Vespinae by Statz (1936), Archer (1995), Perrard et al. (2016) and Engel and Nel (2024).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1758 | Vespa Linnaeus p. 572 |
| 1761 | Vespa Linnaeus p. 415 |
| 1762 | Vespa Geoffroy p. 362 |
| 1763 | Vespa Scopoli p. 308 |
| 1764 | Vespa Müller p. 73 |
| 1767 | Vespa Linnaeus p. 948 |
| 1771 | Vespa Forster p. 90 |
| 1775 | Vespa Fabricius p. 362 |
| 1776 | Vespa Müller p. 162 |
| 1780 | Vespa Harris p. 127 |
| 1796 | Vespa Latreille p. 132 |
| 1798 | Vespa Fabricius p. 260 |
| 1802 | Vespa Latreille p. 364 |
| 1936 | Vespa Statz p. 280 |
| 1989 | Vespa Zhang p. 312 |
| 1992 | Vespa Carpenter |
| 1995 | Vespa Archer p. 47 |
| 2016 | Vespa Perrard et al. |
| 2024 | Vespa Engel and Nel p. 428 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. Vespa Linnaeus 1758
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†Vespa bilineata Statz 1936
Vespa binghami du Buysson 1904
†Vespa ciliata Zhang et al. 1994
†Vespa cordifera Statz 1936
†Vespa crabroniformis Heer 1867
Vespa mandarinia Smith 1852 [Asian giant hornet]
Vespa mandarinia magnifica Smith 1852
†Vespa nigra Statz 1936
†Vespa picea Zhang et al. 1994
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Chattian to the top of the Turolian or 28.10000 to 5.33300 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 23.03 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 23.03 Ma
Collections (7 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Chattian | Germany (North Rhine-Westphalia) | V. cordifera, V. bilineata, V. nigra (122010) | |
| Burdigalian | China (Shandong) | V. ciliata (138944) V. magnifica (128552) V. picea (138946) V. sp., V. binghami (128551) | |
| Sarmatian | Croatia | V. crabroniformis (117250) | |
| Turolian | France (Ardèche) | V. tortonica (113893) |