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Polistes (Polistes) foederatus Kohl 1898

  • 1. Independent Researcher, Viterbo, Italy;
  • 2. Department of Plant Protection, College of Agricultural Engineering Sciences, University of Duhok, Duhok, Iraq;
  • 3. Khabat Technical Institute, Erbil Polytechnic University, Erbil, Iraq;
  • 4. Independent Researcher, Roma, Italy;
  • 5. CREA Research Centre for Agriculture and Environment (CREA-AA), Bologna, Italy & Independent Researcher, Viterbo, Italy;

Description

Polistes (Polistes) foederatus Kohl, 1898

Literature records

Derwesh (1965), mentioning ‘Zoologische Sumlon d. Bayer. Staates’; Al-Ali (1977).

Remarks

Al-Ali (1977) recorded this species as widespread in Iraq. We have not examined any specimens of this species from Iraq and the taxonomy of this taxon has long been confused and only recently resolved (Schmid-Egger et al. 2017), but given its presence in Turkey and Azerbaijan, its presence in at least northern Iraq is plausible. The southernmost records are likely to be attributable to P. mongolicus, newly recorded from Iraq in this note, but it is impossible to confirm this without re-examining the specimens.

Distribution

Italy, Croatia, Slovenia, Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Azerbaijan, Iraq (Schmid-Egger et al. 2017, 2021).

Notes

Published as part of Selis, Marco, Ismael, Halgurd R., Hamad, Mudhafar I., Baiocchi, Daniele & Cilia, Giovanni, 2025, A first update to the vespid fauna of Iraq (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), with description of a new species, pp. 941-981 in Journal of Natural History 59 (13 - 16) on page 970, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2025.2460842, http://zenodo.org/record/17005740

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References

  • Derwesh AI. 1965. A preliminary list of identified insects and some arachnids of Iraq. Baghdad: The Government Press; p. 123.
  • Al-Ali AS. 1977. Phytophagous and entomophagous insects and mites of Iraq. Iraq Nat Hist Res Cent. 33: 1-142.
  • Schmid-Egger C, van Achterberg K, Neumeyer R, Moriniere J, Schmidt S. 2017. Revision of the West Palaearctic Polistes Latreille, with the descriptions of two species - an integrative approach using morphology and DNA barcodes (Hymenoptera, Vespidae). ZooKeys. 713: 53-112. doi: 10.3897 / zookeys. 713.11335.
  • Schmid-Egger C, Gusenleitner J, Liebig W-H, Jacobs H-J. 2021. New records of Vespidae (Hymenoptera) from Iran with descriptions of three species. Linzer biologische Beitrage. 52 (2): 1105-1121.