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Polistes facilis de Saussure 1853

  • 1. Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79 th Street, New York, NY 10024, U. S. A.
  • 2. Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, GPO Box 4646, Darwin, NT 0801, Australia. & Visiting Scientist, CSIRO Land and Water, Private Mail Bag 44, Winnellie, NT 0822, Australia. & University Fellow, Research Institute for Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, NT 0909, Australia. thynnini @ outlook. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4101 - 3823

Description

facilis de Saussure

Polistes facilis de Saussure, 1853: 53 - “La Nouvelle-Hollande ” (Torino). - Froggatt, 1892: 232 (cat.). - Dalla Torre, 1894: 127 (cat.); 1904: 69 (cat.). - Yoshikawa, 1962: 26 (list). - Richards, 1978: 7 (key), 15 (in subgenus Megapolistes; Qld.). - Casolari & Casolari Moreno, 1979: 126 (list). - Cardale, 1985: 210 (in subgenus Megapolistes; cat.). - Carpenter, 1996b: 5 (in subgenus Gyrostoma; list).

Polistes tepidus var. facilis; Meade-Waldo, 1912a: 452 (Old.).

Distribution: NE coastal; Qld.

Notes

Published as part of Carpenter, James M. & Brown, Graham R., 2022, Catalogue of the Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), pp. 451-495 in Zootaxa 5214 (4) on page 453, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5214.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7397617

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Eumenidae
Genus
Polistes
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hymenoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
de Saussure
Species
facilis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Polistes facilis Saussure, 1853 sec. Carpenter & Brown, 2022

References

  • Froggatt, W. W. (1892) Catalogue of the described Hymenoptera of Australia. Part II. Proceedings of the Linnaean Society of New South Wales, Series 2, 7, 205 - 248. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 26049
  • Dalla Torre, K. W. (1894) Catalogus Hymenopterorum. Vol. 9. Vespidae (Diploptera). G. Engelmann, Leipzig, 181 pp.
  • Yoshikawa, K. (1962) Introductory studies on the life economy of polistine wasps VI. Geographical Distribution and its ecological significances. Journal of Biology Osaka City University, 13, 19 - 44.
  • Richards, O. W. (1978) The Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Australian Journal of Zoology, Supplementary Series, 61, 1 - 132. https: // doi. org / 10.1071 / AJZS 061
  • Casolari, C. & Casolari Moreno, R. (1979) Catalogo della collezione imenotterologica di Massimiliano Spinola. 3 a Parte. Bollettino del Museo di Zoologia dell'Universita di Torino, 4, 91 - 130.
  • Cardale, J. C. (1985) Vespoidea and Sphecoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia, 2, 150 - 303.
  • Carpenter, J. M. (1996 b) Distributional checklist of species of the genus Polistes (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Polistinae, Polistini). American Museum Novitates, 3188, 1 - 39.
  • Meade-Waldo, G. (1912 a) An enumeration of the Hymenoptera (Families Vespidae, Apidae, and Tenthredinidae collected in Dutch New Guinea by the Expedition of the British Ornithologists' Union. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 8, 9, 446 - 454. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222931208693154