Polistes olivaceus ( De Geer, 1773 )

Siddiqui, Junaid Ali, Bodlah, Imran, Carpenter, James M., Naeem, Muhammad, Ahmad, Munir & Bodlah, Muhammad Adnan, 2015, Vespidae (Hymenoptera) of the Pothwar region of Punjab, Pakistan, Zootaxa 3914 (5), pp. 501-524 : 513-514

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3914.5.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:64BD9B4F-97A5-4D1E-84FA-EF3947FAD569

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6095202

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Polistes olivaceus ( De Geer, 1773 )
status

 

Polistes olivaceus ( De Geer, 1773) View in CoL

( Figs 27 View FIGURE 27 a–b)

Vespa olivacea De Geer, 1773: 582 , pl. 29, fig. 9, “Amérique” (? Stockholm). Vespa hebraea Fabricius, 1787: 292 , “in India orientali” (København).

Vespa undata Olivier, 1792: 684 , “Indes orientales” (type depository unknown). Vespa macaensis Fabricius, 1793: 259 , “in Macao Indiae” (London).

Material examined. Islamabad, 19.ix.12, 3♀; Rawalpindi, 14.iv.12, 2♀; Attock, 20.v.12, 1♀, 26.v.12, 1♀; Chakwal, 16.iv.12, 2♀; Jhelum, 1.vi.13, 2♀.

Distribution. Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan, Indonesia, Australia, New Caledonia, Chile, Myanmar, Cambodia, Malaysia Egypt, New Zealand, India, Nepal, Oman, Mauritius, Philippines, Madagascar, Singapore, Japan, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Fiji, Thailand, Laos, Tonga, Vietnam and introduced into Hawaii, Australia and New Zealand ( Das & Gupta 1989, Carpenter 1996, Mahmood et al. 2012).

Comments. Collected specimens were compared with the published description of Polistes olivaceus De Geer given by Mahmood et al. (2012). This species is distinguished by the thorax and mesopleuron yellow orange with black markings. New locality records have been provided for this species.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Eumenidae

Genus

Polistes

Loc

Polistes olivaceus ( De Geer, 1773 )

Siddiqui, Junaid Ali, Bodlah, Imran, Carpenter, James M., Naeem, Muhammad, Ahmad, Munir & Bodlah, Muhammad Adnan 2015
2015
Loc

Vespa undata

Fabricius 1793: 259
Olivier 1792: 684
1792
Loc

Vespa olivacea De Geer, 1773 : 582

Fabricius 1787: 292
De 1773: 582
1773
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