Polistes (Gyrostoma) wattii Cameron , 1900

Mahmood, Khalid, Ullah, Mishkat, Aziz, Abdul, Hasan, Syed Azhar & Inayatullah, Mian, 2012, To the knowledge of Vespidae (Hymenoptera) of Pakistan, Zootaxa 3318, pp. 26-50 : 39-40

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Female: Body length 11–15 mm (n = 25), fore wing length 11–17 mm (n = 25). Male: Body length 15–16 mm (n = 2), fore wing length 15.5– 17 mm (n = 2).

Material examined. PAKISTAN: Gilgit-Baltistan, Hunza, 1Ψ, 30.vii.1987, 1Ψ, 31.vii.1987, Diamer, 2Ψ, 26.vii.1987, Abro; Gilgit, 1Ψ, 28.vii.1987, Afzal; Dassu, 2Ψ, 14.viii.1988, Abro; Basha, 2Ψ, 06.vii.2006, Abbas; Chillas, 3Ψ, 04.vii.1987, Abro, 1Ψ, 5–10.vii.2006, Abbas ( PMNH). Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Dir, 1Ψ, 13.viii.1987, Abro; Peshawar, 1ɗ, 23.x.2007, Kohat, 1ɗ, 24.x.2007, Mishkat; Peshawar, Warsak, 2Ψ, 26.x.2007, Fida ( PMNH). Abbottabad, 3Ψ, 20.viii.2008, 1Ψ, 21.viii.2008, Mansehra, 1Ψ, 20.viii.2008, Mardan, 3Ψ, 20.viii.2008, Peshawar, 1Ψ, 29.viii.2008, Aziz ( KPUAP). Punjab, Islamabad, 3Ψ, 27.iii.1981, Afzal, 1Ψ, 09.vii.1981, Abro, 2Ψ, 09.vii.1981, 1Ψ, 21.vii.1981, Fiaz, 1Ψ, 27.vii.1981, 1Ψ, 15.x.1981, Abro, 2Ψ, 27.iii.1982, Afzal, 1Ψ, 08.iv.1982, Abro, 1Ψ, 14.iii.2005, 2Ψ, 17.iii.2005, 1Ψ, 22.iii.2005, 1Ψ, 20.iv.2005, 1Ψ, 29.iii.2007, 1Ψ, 18.iv.2007, 2Ψ, 17.v.2007, 1Ψ, 23.vii.2007, 1Ψ, 21.iv.2008, Fida; Bahawalpur, Habib Massan, 3Ψ, 28.viii.2009, Chak 28 BC, 2Ψ, 11.v.2010, Abbaspur, 1Ψ, 12.v.2010, Mishkat Ullah ( PMNH). Sindh, Ghotki, Drago, 2Ψ, 27.viii.2009, Taj Mohammad Rukh, 2ɗ, 15.xi.2009, 5Ψ, 10.v.2010, Sukkur, Rajab Ali Bharo, 2ɗ, 14.xi.2009, Allahyar Pinhwar, 09.v.2010, Mishkat Ullah ( PMNH).

Distribution. Afghanistan, China, India, Iran, Iraq, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia ( Das & Gupta 1989, Kojima & Carpenter 1997, Gusenleitner 2007).

References

Cameron, P. (1900) Descriptions of new genera and species of Hymenoptera. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 6, 410 - 541.

Das, B. P. & Gupta, V. K. (1989) The Social Wasps of India and the Adjacent Countries (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Oriental Insects Monograph 11. The Association for the Study of Oriental Insects, Gainesville, 292 pp.

Gusenleitner, J. (2007) Uber Vespidae aus Pakistan (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Linzer Biologische Beitrage, 39 (2), 969 - 972.

Carpenter, J. M. & Kojima, J. (1997) Checklist of the species in the subfamily Vespinae (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Natural History Bulliten of Ibaraki University, 1, 51 - 92.