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Polistes (Polistes) indicus Stolfa 1934

Description

Polistes (Polistes) indicus Stolfa, 1934

Material Examined: PAKISTAN: Gilgit-Baltistan: Astore: Doyan, 6.vii.09, Leg. F. Naz, ♀; (Ex. NIM).

Remarks: This species was reported from “ India: Kewra, Salt Range, Punjab,” now Pakistan by Das & Gupta (1984). Dvořák (2007) reported this species from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa: Peshawar. Gusenleitner (2007) reported this species from Gilgit-Baltistan: Gasdas, Ghizar valley, Thiee, Jaglot and Chilas. Mahmood et al. (2012) recorded it from Punjab: Bahawalpur: Chak, 28 BC; Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa: Kohat, Abad Khel, Sindh: Sukkur, Allahyar Pinhwar, Ghotki, Taj Mohammad Ruk; Gilgit-Baltistan: Hunza, Chillas. Siddiqui et al. (2015) reported it from Punjab: Rawalpindi, Attock, Jhelum and Chakwal. Shah (2015) reported it from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa: Mansehra, Balakot, Baffa, Oghi, Battagram, Allai, Abbottabad, Havelian and Ayubia. Faiz et al. (2016) reported this species from Gilgit-Baltistan: Gilgit and Astore.

Distribution: Afghanistan; Iran; Iraq; India; Oman; Pakistan; U.A.E. (Carpenter 1996; Gusenleitner 2007; Dvořák 2007; Abbasi et al. 2008; Kumar & Kishore 2010; Siddiqui et al. 2015).

Notes

Published as part of Rafi, Muhammad Ather, Carpenter Muhammad Qasim, James M., Shehzad, Anjum, Zia, Ahmed, Khan, Muhammad Rafique, Mastoi, Muhammad Ishaque, Naz, Falak, Ilyas, Muhammad, Shah, Mazafar & Bhatti, Abdul Rauf, 2017, The vespid fauna of Pakistan, pp. 1-28 in Zootaxa 4362 (1) on pages 18-19, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4362.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1076112

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
NIM
Event date
2009-07-06
Verbatim event date
2009-07-06
Scientific name authorship
Stolfa
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Vespidae
Genus
Polistes
Species
indicus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Polistes (Polistes) indicus Stolfa, 1934 sec. Rafi, Muhammad, Shehzad, Zia, Khan, Mastoi, Naz, Ilyas, Shah & Bhatti, 2017

References

  • Das, B. P. & Gupta, V. K. (1984 [" 1983 "]) A catalogue of the families Stenogastridae and Vespidae from the Indian subregion (Hymenoptera: Vespoidea), Oriental Insects, 17 (1), 395 - 464. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00305316.1983.10433698
  • Dvorak, L. (2007) The social wasp fauna of Pakistan (Hymenoptera, Vespidae). Linzer Biologische Beitrage, 39 (1), 51 - 55.
  • Gusenleitner, J. (2007) Uber Vespidae aus Pakistan (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Linzer Biologische Beitrage, 39 (2), 969 - 972.
  • Mahmood, K., Ullah, M., Aziz, A., Hasan, S. A. & Inayatullah, M. (2012) To the knowledge of Vespidae (Hymenoptera) of Pakistan. Zootaxa, 3318, 26 - 50.
  • Shah, M. (2015) Biosystematics of wasps species (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) from Hazara Region, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Ph. D Thesis, Hazara University Mansehra, 152 pp.
  • Faiz, A., Rafi, M. A., Zia, A., Shah, A., Shah, S. W., Khan, R. U & Saeed, M. (2016) Wasp fauna of (Eumeninae: Vespinae and Polistinae) in forests of Gilgit-Baltistan (Pakistan). Pure and Applied Biology, 5 (4), (accepted). http: // dx. doi. org / 10.19045 / bspab. 2016.50073.
  • Carpenter, J. M. (1996) Distributional checklist of species of the genus Polistes (Hymenoptera: Vespidae; Polistinae; Polistini).
  • Abbasi, R., Rad, S. P., Ebrahimi, E. & Sheidaei, M. (2008) Faunistic study of vespid wasps in Zanjan Province (Northwest of Iran) with some ecological measures. Environmental Science, 6 (1), 65 - 74.
  • Kumar, P. G. & Kishore, L. (2010) New record of Polistes (Polistes) indicus Stolfa from India (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Polistinae). Uttar Pradesh Journal of Zoology, 30 (2), 193 - 196.