Animalia > Arthropoda > Insecta > Hymenoptera > Vespidae > Dolichovespula > Dolichovespula adulterina

Dolichovespula adulterina (parasitic yellowjacket)

Synonyms: Pseudovespula adulterina; Vespa adulterina (homotypic); Vespa colchica; Vespa saxonica (heterotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

Dolichovespula adulterina is a species of parasitic social wasp. D. adulterina lives in the Palearctic and Nearctic regions but parasitize different host species depending on which region it inhabits. D. adulterina feeds on a variety of foods including insects, spiders, arthropods, meat, mollusks, fruit, nectar and larval secretions. D. adulterina is synonymous with D. arctica from the Palearctic region.
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Infraspecies

Dolichovespula adulterina adulterina
Dolichovespula adulterina arctica
Dolichovespula adulterina montivaga

Consumers

Pollinator of 
Angelica pubescens[1]
Hydrangea paniculata (panicled hydrangea)[1]
Reynoutria japonica (Japanese knotweed)[1]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0