Belonogaster kohli Schulz, 1906

Selis, Marco & Longair, Robert W., 2025, New data on the genus Belonogaster de Saussure, with establishment of the atrata species-group (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Polistinae), Zootaxa 5692 (2), pp. 353-368 : 362

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Belonogaster kohli Schulz, 1906 View in CoL

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Belonogaster kohli Schulz, 1906: 322 View in CoL , ♀ – “ Insel Fernando Po ” (NHMUK).

Material examined. CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: Ombella-Mpoko, 75km NNE Bangui , 26–29.IV.2010, leg. A. Kudrna Jr., 1♀ ( MSVI) . IVORY COAST: Tai NP, IET Station , 5.83333N 7.341944W, 22.II.1997, leg. R GoogleMaps . Longair , 2♀ ( CNC) . TOGO: Kloto, Foret de Missahoe , X.2020, 1♀ ( MSVI) .

Distribution. Ivory Coast *, Togo *, Bioko, Central African Republic *, Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda.

Notes. The specimens from West Africa ( Figs 5A–B View FIGURE 5 ) show the same dark pattern described by Richards (1982), while the one from Central African Republic ( Figs 5C–D View FIGURE 5 ) shows a lighter ferruginous coloration with the following pale yellow markings: ventral quarter and suffused lateral margins of clypeus, most of mandibles, part of malar space and gena, inner eye margin up to bottom of ocular sinus, underside of scape, paired spots on middle of pronotum, inferior margin of pronotum, extreme sides of scutellum including axillae, metanotum including axillae, elongate spots on propodeum, propodeal valvula, most of proepisternum, irregular markings on posterior half of mesepisternum, inner margin of fore coxae, line on outer face of fore tibia, suffused narrow apical line on T2. This paler pattern is similar to that described by Schulz (1906) for the holotype.