Vespula rufa

Vespula rufa (LINNAEUS 1758) L o c a l i t i e s:AnoParoia,LargePlateau,yellowpantrapataldercarr,8.8.- 13.8.2007, 1 º. Neo Petritsi, Sultanitsa, 19.5.- 25.5.2008, 1♀; 7.- 13.7.2008, 1 º; 21.- 27.7.2008, 2 ºº; 1.9.- 7.9.2008, 1 º. Vironia, Beabies, 9.- 15.6.2008, 1 º; 23.- 29.6.2008, 1 º. Vironia, Ramna, 16.6.- 22.6.2008, 2 ºº; 23.- 29.6.2008, 1 º; 30.6.- 6.7.2008, 1 º; 7.7.- 13.7.2008, 2 ºº; 14.- 20.7.2007, 1 º; 19.7.2009, yellow pan traps, 2WW. The four localities are in hilly and montane damp and forested areas at 630-1485 m. Holarctic forest species which can also inhabit coniferous forests. The southern European mountains represent the southern borders of the species’ distribution. The only previous finds from Greece are mentioned in an unpublished dissertation by ĆETKOVIĆ 2002. The first published records from Greece.
Published as part of Dvořák, L. & Ramel, G., 2009, Social wasps of Wetland Kerkini, northern Greece (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Vespinae, Polistinae), pp. 1937-1948 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 41 (2) on page 1944, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5280255
{"references":["CETKOVIC A. (2002): Diverzitet faune socijalnih osa (Vespinae et Polistinae, Vespidae, Hymenoptera) Balkanskog poluostrva i susednih regiona - biogeografski i taksonomski aspekti. [Diversity of the social wasps of the Balkan Peninsula and the adjacent regions - biogeographical and taxonomic aspects (Vespinae et Polistinae, Vespidae, Hymenoptera)]. - Ph. D. Thesis, Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade, 331 pp. (in Serbo-Croatian, English abstract)."]}