Vespula Thomson 1869

Genus Vespula Thomson, 1869 Vespula austriaca (Panzer, 1799) (N) Vespula germanica (Fabricius, 1793) (N, S, Sa, Si) Vespula rufa (Linnaeus, 1758) (N, S) Vespula vulgaris (Linnaeus, 1758) (N, S, Si?) Acknowledgements – I’m grateful to Davide Dal Pos and James M. Carpenter for their comments and the English proofreading of the manuscript, and to all the colleagues that kindly donated their material, a fundamental help for the realization of the present paper.Published as part of Selis, Marco, 2023, Illustrated key to the genera and a checklist of Italian Vespidae (Hymenoptera), pp. 63-88 in Fragmenta entomologica 55 (1) on pages 73-82, DOI: 10.13133/2284-4880/1413, http://zenodo.org/record/814841