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Polistes (Polistes) nimpha
Description
Polistes (Polistes) nimpha (Christ, 1791)
Remarks: Earlier Carpenter (1996) listed this species from Pakistan. Mahmood et al. (2012) recorded it from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa: Swat, Kalam.
Distribution: Azerbaijan; central and southern Europe; China; India; Iran; Iraq; Israel; Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Madeiras; Mongolia; Northern Africa; Pakistan; Turkey (Das & Gupta 1989; Carpenter 1996; Mahmood et al. 2012).
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 page 19, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4362.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1076112
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Christ
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Family
- Vespidae
- Genus
- Polistes
- Species
- nimpha
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Polistes (Polistes) nimpha (Christ, 1791) sec. Rafi, Muhammad, Shehzad, Zia, Khan, Mastoi, Naz, Ilyas, Shah & Bhatti, 2017
References
- Carpenter, J. M. (1996) Distributional checklist of species of the genus Polistes (Hymenoptera: Vespidae; Polistinae; Polistini).
- Mahmood, K., Ullah, M., Aziz, A., Hasan, S. A. & Inayatullah, M. (2012) To the knowledge of Vespidae (Hymenoptera) of Pakistan. Zootaxa, 3318, 26 - 50.
- Das, B. P. & Gupta, V. K. (1989) The social wasps of India and the adjacent countries. Oriental Inscect Monograph, 11, 1 - 292.