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Polistes tepidus

  • 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.

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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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

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