Belonogaster fuscipennis du Buysson, 1909

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 : 361

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5692.2.8
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17321734
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scientific name	Belonogaster fuscipennis du Buysson, 1909
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Belonogaster fuscipennis du Buysson, 1909 View in CoL

Belonogaster griseus var. fuscipennis du Buysson, 1909: 251 View in CoL , 264, ♀, ♂ – “ Congo français: Haute Sanga ” ( lectotype female MNHN).

Material examined. BENIN: Zangnanado, river Ouene , 15.IV.2000, leg. J. Halada, 1♀ ( MSVI) . CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: Ombella-Mpoko, 5km E Damara , 400m, 18-19.VII.2011, leg. A. Kudrna Jr., 1♀ ( MSVI) .

Distribution. Benin *, Central African Republic *, Democratic Republic of Congo, Congo, Sudan.

Notes. The specimen from Central African Republic differs from the description provided by Richards (1982) in the following aspects: area around ocelli darkened, mid and hind tarsi entirely black, S2 with very suffused and barely visible subapical yellow spots, frons and vertex with short black setae, short black erect setae on mid and hind femur.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Hymenoptera
Family	Eumenidae
Genus	Belonogaster