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

Polistes ( Gyrostoma) wattii Cameron, 1900

Figs 15 (a–d)

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

Figures

FIGURE 15. Polistes wattii. a, habitus; b, head, frontal view; c, head and mesosoma, dorsal view; d, metasoma, dorsal view.