The taxonomy of Vespa crabro L. and V. dybowskii Andre (Hym., Vespniae) (1992) (original) (raw)

Vespa crabro Linnaeus, 1758 and V. dybowskii Andr6, 1884 are probably a monophyletic group united by the derived character state of the absence of projections from the dorsal part of the male digitus. In a cladistic analysls of Vespa (Archer, unpublished) these two species with the V. tropica species group (I/. orientalis Linnaeus, 177I, V. mandarinia Smiih, 1852, V. soror du Buysson, 1905, V. ducalis Smith, 1852, V. philippinensis de Saussure, 1854, V. tropica (Linnaeus' 1758)) form a monophyletic group characterised by the following derived character state: