Polistes tepidus
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
tepidus tepidus (Fabricius)
Vespa tepida Fabricius, 1775: 366 - “in nova Hollandia ” (holotype female London); 1781: 462; 1787: 287. - Gmelin, 1790: 2752. - Christ, 1791: 242. - Olivier, 1792: 682. - Fabricius, 1793: 262. - Donovan, 1804: pl. 57. - Zimsen, 1964: 403 (list).
Polistes tepidus; Fabricius, 1804: 271. - de Saussure, 1853: 68, pl. VIII Fig. 1. - Möbius, 1856: 167, pl. 18 Fig. 7. - Smith, 1864: 138 (nest). - Froggatt, 1892: 233 (cat.). - Dalla Torre, 1894: 135 (cat.). - Badenoch, 1898: 185, Fig. 28 (nest). - DallaTorre, 1904: 71 (cat.). - Meade-Waldo, 1911: 102 (syn.: P. malayanus Cameron), 103 (key); 1912a: 452 (New Guinea). - Meade-Waldo & Morley, 1914: 406 (syn.: P. malayanus Cameron). - Bridwell, 1919; 120–122 (taxonomic note). - Cheesman, 1951: 982. (New Guinea). - Yoshikawa, 1962: 39 (syn.: P. malayanus Cameron; list). - van der Vecht, 1972 [1971]: 90 (malayanus Cameron “sufficently different to be regarded as a subspecies”). - Hook, 1982: 277–278 (ethology). - Petersen, 1990: 63 (“North Queensland is obviously a zone of intergradiation of tepidus and malayanus ”). - Williams & Adam, 1995: 56 (flower visits); 1998: 54, 67 (pollen load). - Saito et al., 2005: 102 (distr.).
Polistes tepidus tepidus; Richards, 1978: 8 (key), 19 (syn: P. malayanus Cameron; in subgenus Megapolistes; nest from New Guinea; redescription). - Cardale, 1985: 210 (in subgenus Megapolistes; cat.). - Kojima & Kojima, 1988: 70, Figs 1–11 (male genitalia; larva). - Carpenter, 1996a: 53 (in subgenus Megapolistes); 1996b: 9 (in subgenus Gyrostoma; list).
Distribution: NE coastal, SE coastal; Qld., N. S. W., Vic.
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Fabricius
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Family
- Eumenidae
- Genus
- Polistes
- Species
- tepidus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Polistes tepidus (Fabricius, 1775) sec. Carpenter & Brown, 2022
References
- Fabricius, J. C. (1775) Systema Entomologiae. Officina Libraria Kortii, Flensburgi et Lipsiae, xxxii + 832 pp.
- Gmelin, J. E. (1790) Caroli a Linne, Systema Naturae. Vol. I. Par V. Impensis Georg. Emanuel. Beer, Lipsiae, 796 pp. [pp. 2225 - 3020]
- Christ, J. L. (1791) Naturgeschichte, Klassification und Nomenclatur der Insekten vom Bienen, Wespen und Ameisengeschlecht. Hermannischer Buchhandlung, Frankfurt am Main, 535 pp., 60 pls.
- Olivier, G. A. (1792) Encyclopedie methodique. Insectes 6. Panckoucke, Paris, 704 pp.
- Fabricius, J. C. (1793) Entomologia Systematica. Vol. 2. Christ. Gottl. Proft, Hafniae, viii + 519 pp.
- Zimsen, E. (1964) The Type Material of I. C. Fabricius. s. n., Copenhagen, 656 pp., 2 pls.
- Fabricius, J. C. (1804) Systema Piezatorum. Carolum Reichard, Brunsvigae, xiv + 15 - 440 + 30 pp.
- Mobius, K. A. (1856) Die Nester der geselligen Wespen. Beschreibungen neuer Nester- und einiger neuen Wespen-arten des naturhistorischen Museums zu Hamburg nebst Betrachtungen uber den Nesterbau im Allegemeinen. Abhandlungen und Verhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg, 3, 117 - 171, 19 pls.
- Smith, F. (1864) On the construction of hexagonal cells by bees and wasps. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, Series 3, 2, 131 - 142, pl. XIII. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 2311.1864. tb 00098. x
- 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.
- Badenoch, L. N. (1898) Romance of the Insect World. Macmillan Company, New York, New York, 341 pp.
- Meade-Waldo, G. (1911) X. - New species of Diploptera in the collection of the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 8, 7, 98 - 113. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222931108692910
- Meade-Waldo, G. & Morley, C. (1914) Notes and synonymy of Hymenoptera in the collection of the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 8, 14, 402 - 410. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222931408693594
- Bridwell, J. C. (1919) Miscellaneous notes on Hymenoptera with descriptions of new genera and species. Eumenidae. 4. What is Abispa australiana Mitchell? Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society, 4, 120 - 122.
- Cheesman, L. E. (1951) A collection of Polistes from Papuasia in the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 12, 4, 982 - 993. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222935108654229
- 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.
- 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.
- Hook, A. W. (1982) Observations on a declining nest of Polistes tepidus (F.) (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society, 21, 277 - 278. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1440 - 6055.1982. tb 01813. x
- Petersen, B. (1990) Polistine wasps of the subgenera Stenopolistes and Megapolistes from the Phippine, Moluccan and Bismarck Islands (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Entomologica Scandinavica, 21, 53 - 66. https: // doi. org / 10.1163 / 187631290 X 00030
- Williams, G. & Adam, P. (1995) Records of aculeate wasps from flowering subtropical rainforest trees. Australian Entomologist, 22 (2), 51 - 58.
- Saito, F. & Kojima, J. (2005 a) Taxonomy and biogeography of Australian species of the Ropalidia stigma group and R. variegata group (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Entomological Science, 8, 179 - 188. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1479 - 8298.2005.00111. x
- 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
- Cardale, J. C. (1985) Vespoidea and Sphecoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia, 2, 150 - 303.
- Kojima, J. & Kojima, K. (1988) Three new species of Polistes Latreille (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) from Papua New Guinea, with notes on the taxonomic status of the subgenus Stenopolistes van der Vecht. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society, 27, 69 - 80. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1440 - 6055.1988. tb 01149. x
- Carpenter, J. M. (1996 a) Phylogeny and biogeography of Polistes. In: Turillazzi, S. & West-Eberhard, M. J. (Eds.), Natural History and Evolution of Paper-Wasps. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 18 - 57.