Document Type

Article

Journal/Book Title/Conference

Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society

Volume

25

Issue

2

Publication Date

4-1-1930

First Page

59

Last Page

70

Abstract

The present paper is an outgrowth of a revision, which I am now preparing for publication, of the North American species of Vespa. When I came to consider the proper generic and subgeneric names to use for these wasps, I found that no serious attempt had been made to define or delimit the superspecific groups. To do this involved a study of as many species as possible from all over the world, for, in my opinion, genera and subgenera cannot be properly defined with only the species of a limited geographical area. On the other hand, a taxonomic discussion of the Vespinae as a whole would be out of place in a strictly faunistic paper, so that I have decided to publish it separately.

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