Polistes (Gyrostoma), Kirby, 1828

Carpenter, James M. & Brown, Graham R., 2022, Catalogue of the Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), Zootaxa 5214 (4), pp. 451-495 : 453

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5214.4.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7405512

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scientific name

Polistes (Gyrostoma)
status

 

Subgenus Gyrostoma Kirby

Gyrostoma Kirby, 1828 , in Kirby & Spence: 36, 631, replacement name for Cyclostoma Kirby, 1826 View in CoL , non Lamarck, 1799.

Cyclostoma Kirby, 1826 View in CoL , in Kirby & Spence: 36, 633, genus. Non Cyclostoma Lamarck, 1799 (Mollusca) View in CoL .

Type species: Cyclostoma gigas Kirby, 1826 , by monotypy.

Megapolistes van der Vecht, 1968a: 97, subgenus of Polistes Latreille. View in CoL

Type species: Vespa olivacea DeGeer, 1773 , by original designation.

Nygmopolistes Richards, 1973: 91 , 93, 98, subgenus of Polistes Latreille. View in CoL

Type species: “ Polistes sulcatus Smith, 1852 View in CoL (= P. rugifrons Cameron, 1900 ),” by original designation.

Megapostes [!]; Lee, 1982: 122, 124, 126.

This subgenus is also found in the Oriental Region and Pacific islands , with a few species in Palaearctic Asia.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Eumenidae

Genus

Polistes

Loc

Polistes (Gyrostoma)

Carpenter, James M. & Brown, Graham R. 2022
2022
Loc

Nygmopolistes

Richards, O. W. 1973: 91
1973
Loc

Megapolistes

Vecht, J. van der 1968: 97
1968
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