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Polistes tenebricosus Lepeletier 1836

Description

Polistes tenebricosus Lepeletier 1836 [Polistes (Gyrostoma) tenebricosus Lepeletier 1836]

Sonan (1943: 471) mentioned that this species was rather rare in Taiwan and he had examined 21 Ƥ and 5 3 from Chikutou, Hatonosawa at the foot of Taiheizan, Hori, Kayahara, Koushun, Musha, Souzan, Taiheizan, Taihoku and Urai (in Bunzan-gun).

Notes

Published as part of Kojima, Jun-Ichi, Saito, Fuki & Nguyen, Lien Thi Phuong, 2011, On the species-group taxa of Taiwanese social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) described and / or treated by J. Sonan, pp. 42-64 in Zootaxa 2920 on page 48, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.201805

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Eumenidae
Genus
Polistes
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hymenoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Lepeletier
Species
tenebricosus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Polistes tenebricosus Lepeletier, 1836 sec. Kojima, Saito & Nguyen, 2011

References

  • Lepeletier de Saint Fargeau, A. L. M. (1836) Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Hymenopteres. Tome premier. Librairie Encyclopedique de Roret, Paris, 547 pp.
  • Sonan, J. (1943) Taiwan-san ashinagabachi-zoku Polistes Latreille ni tsuite [no English title; translation to English: On the genus Polistes Latreille from Taiwan]. Transactions of the Natural History Society of Formosa, 33, 467 - 484. (In Japanese).