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Polistes (Polistella) Ashmead, 1904
Authors/Creators
- 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
Subgenus Polistella Ashmead
Polistella Ashmead, 1904: 133, genus.
Type species: Polistes manillensis de Saussure, 1853, by original designation. [Misidentification of Protopolybia sedula (de Saussure) = P. exigua (de Saussure).]
Stenopolistes van der van der Vecht, 1972 [1971]: 101, subgenus of Polistes Latreille.
Type species: Polistes lateritius Smith, 1857, by original designation.
This subgenus is also found in the Oriental and Ethiopian Regions.
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 455, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5214.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7397617
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Ashmead, 1904
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Family
- Eumenidae
- Genus
- Polistes
- Taxon rank
- subGenus
References
- Ashmead, W. H. (1904) Descriptions of new genera and species of Hymenoptera from the Phillippine Islands. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 28 (1387), 127 - 158.
- Vecht, J. van der (1972 [" 1971 "]) The subgenera Megapolistes and Stenopolistes in the Solomon Islands (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Polistes Latreille). In: Entomological Essays to Commemorate the Retirement of Professor K. Yasumatsu. Hokuryukan Publishing Company, Tokyo, pp. 87 - 106.
- Smith, F. (1857) Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum, Part V. Vespidae, 5. Printed by order of the Trustees, London, 147 pp.