Polistes (Polistella) adustus Bingham 1897

Nguyen, Lien Thi Phuong, Kojima, Jun-Ichi & Saito, Fuki, 2011, Polistes (Polistella) wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Polistinae) from mountainous areas of northern Vietnam, with description of five new species, Zootaxa 3060, pp. 1-30 : 22

Polistes (Polistella) adustus Bingham 1897

( Figs 81, 83 )

Polistes adustus Bingham 1897: 397 , Ƥ, holotype, "Sikkim, up to 6000 feet " [The Natural History Museum, London].

Material examined. BHUTAN: 1 Ƥ ( RMNH), Lungtenphu, alt. 2300 m, 22–27.VII.1990, H.R. Feijen; INDIA: 1 Ƥ ( NIAES), Mussoorie, Uttar Pradesh, 24.V.1970, I. Hattori.

Distribution. India: Himachal Pradesh, Delhi, Uttaranchal, Sikkim, Meghalaya, West Bengal; Bhutan (new record); Nepal; China.

Figures

FIGURES 75 – 84. Characters of Polistes species of subgenus Polistella occurring in northern Vietnam. 75 – 80. 3. 81 – 84. Ƥ. 75, 77, 79. P. mandarinus. 76, 78, 80. P. nipponensis. 81, 83. P. adustus. 82, 84. P. nigerrimus. 75 – 76, 81. Head, frontal view. 77 – 78. terminal sterna, lateral view. 79 – 80. Aedeagus, lateral view. 82. Head, lateral view. 83 – 84. Metasomal segments 1 and 2 in lateral view. Scale 1 mm.