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Polistes biglumis

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Polistes biglumis (LINNAEUS 1758)

L o c a l i t i e s:AnoParoia,Camp1777, yellow pan traps, 15.7.- 27.7.2007, 1 º.

One find from a subalpine stand at 1600 m a.s.l. West Palaearctic species occurring in almost the whole of Europe, northern Africa, and the Middle East, to Mongolia and Pakistan. It inhabits open stands without any moisture preference. ĆETKOVIĆ 2002 has noted that the Greek data published by ZIMMERMANN 1931 and WEYRAUCH 1939 are erroneous. The first verified record from Greece.

Notes

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 1945, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5280255

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
LINNAEUS
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Eumenidae
Genus
Polistes
Species
biglumis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Polistes biglumis (LINNAEUS, 1758) sec. Dvořák & Ramel, 2009

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).
  • ZIMMERMANN K. (1931): Studien uber individuelle und geographische Variabilitat palaarktischer Polistes und verwandter Vespiden. - Zeitschrift fur Morphologie und Okologie der Tiere 22: 173 - 230.
  • WEYRAUCH W. (1939): Zur Systematik der palaarktischen Polistinen auf biologischer Grundlage. - Archiv fur Naturgeschichte, B, N. F., Leipzig, 8: 145 - 197.