Polistes olivaceus De Geer 1773
Description
Polistes olivaceus (De Geer, 1773)
(Figs 27 a–b)
Vespa olivacea De Geer, 1773: 582, pl. 29, fig. 9, “Amérique” (? Stockholm). Vespa hebraea Fabricius, 1787: 292, “in India orientali” (København).
Vespa undata Olivier, 1792: 684, “Indes orientales” (type depository unknown). Vespa macaensis Fabricius, 1793: 259, “in Macao Indiae” (London).
Material examined. Islamabad, 19.ix.12, 3♀; Rawalpindi, 14.iv.12, 2♀; Attock, 20.v.12, 1♀, 26.v.12, 1♀; Chakwal, 16.iv.12, 2♀; Jhelum, 1.vi.13, 2♀.
Distribution. Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan, Indonesia, Australia, New Caledonia, Chile, Myanmar, Cambodia, Malaysia Egypt, New Zealand, India, Nepal, Oman, Mauritius, Philippines, Madagascar, Singapore, Japan, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Fiji, Thailand, Laos, Tonga, Vietnam and introduced into Hawaii, Australia and New Zealand (Das & Gupta 1989, Carpenter 1996, Mahmood et al. 2012).
Comments. Collected specimens were compared with the published description of Polistes olivaceus De Geer given by Mahmood et al. (2012). This species is distinguished by the thorax and mesopleuron yellow orange with black markings. New locality records have been provided for this species.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- De Geer
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Family
- Eumenidae
- Genus
- Polistes
- Species
- olivaceus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Polistes olivaceus Geer, 1773 sec. Siddiqui, Bodlah, Carpenter, Naeem, Ahmad & Bodlah, 2015
References
- De Geer, C. (1773) Memoires pour Servir a l'Histoire des Insectes, 3. P. Hesselberg, Stockholm, 696 pp.
- Fabricius, J. C. (1787) Mantissa Insectorum. Hafniae, 348 pp.
- Olivier, G. A. (1792) Encyclopedie methodique 6, Pt. 2. Paris, pp. 369 - 709.
- Fabricius, J. C. (1793) Entomologia Systematica, 2. Hafniae, 519 pp.
- Das, B. P. & Gupta, V. K. (1989) The social wasps of India and the adjacent countries. Oriental Insects Monograph, 11, 1 - 292.
- Carpenter, J. M. (1996) Distributional checklist of the species of the genus Polistes (Hymenoptera: Vespidae; Polistinae, Polistini). American Museum Novitates, 3188, 1 - 39.
- Mahmood, K., Ullah, M., Aziz, A., Hasan, S. A. & Inayatullah, M. (2012) To the knowledge of Vespidae (Hymenoptera) of Pakistan. Zootaxa, 3318, 26 - 50.