Subspecies Polistes (Polistes) chinensis antennalis Pérez, 1905

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• Polistes biglumis antennalis Pérez, J. 1905. Hyménoptères recueillis dans le Japon central par M. Harmand, Ministre Plénipotentiaire de France à Tokio. Deuxième partie. Vespides et Scoliides. Bulletin du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris [published 1895-1906] 11: 79-87 [81] [as variety of Polistes biglumis Fabricius [sic]].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MNHP ♀ adult, Japan.
  Paralectotype(s) MNHP ♀ adult, Kouy-Tchéou, China; MNHP 2♀ adults, Japan.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Kojima, J. 1997. Taxonomic notes on the social wasps in the Kanto Plain, central Japan (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Natural History Bulletin of Ibaraki University 1: 17-44 [26].
• Polistes (Polistes) insepultus Giordani-Soika, A. 1976. Vespidi ed Eumenidi raccolti in Corea (Hymenoptera). Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici (Zoologica) 68: 287-293 [287].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNH ♀ ♀ adults, 12 km NE of Pyongyang, De-Sang san, Prov. South Pyongan, Korea.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Carpenter, J.M. 1996. Distributional checklist of species of the genus Polistes (Hymenoptera: Vespidae; Polistinae, Polistini). American Museum Novitates 3188: 1-39 [19]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Accidentally introduced into the Sydney area, native to the Palaearctic Region (Japan, Korea and Mongolia) and introduced into Norfolk Is. and New Zealand (late 1970's); only published localities Newtown, Sydney, Sydney University and Norfolk Is.

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: predator, sedentary.

Extra Ecological Information

Social, nests of 'paper'.

General References

Cardale, J.C. 1999. Asian Paper Wasp recorded from Australia. Myrmecia 35(1): 3-4 [3] (first record for Australia)

Carpenter, J.M. & Brown, G.R. 2022. Catalogue of the Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Zootaxa 5214(4): 451–495

Clapperton, B.K. 1999. Abundance of wasps and prey consumption of paper wasps (Hymenoptera, Vespidae: Polistinae) in Northland, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Ecology 23(1): 11-19 (abundance and prey in New Zealand)

Clapperton, B.K., Tilley, J.A.V. & Pierce, R.J. 1996. Distribution and abundance of the Asian paper wasp Polistes chinensis antennalis Pérez and the Australian paper wasp P. humilis (Fab.) (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 23: 19-25 (distribution and abundance in New Zealand)

Clapperton, B.K. & Dymock, J.J. 1997. Growth and survival of colonies of the Asian paper wasp, Polistes chinensis antennalis (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 24: 9-15 (biology in New Zealand)

Kojima, J. 1998. Larvae of social wasps (Insecta: Hymenoptera; Vespidae). Natural History Bulletin of Ibaraki University 2: 7-227 [36] (larval description and illustrations)

Kojima, J. & Hagiwara, Y. 1990. Foundress behaviour in a bigynic colony of Polistes chinensis antennalis (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Publication from the Itako Hydrobiological Station 4: 1-5 (behaviour)

Kojima, J. & Hagiwara, Y. 1998. Lectotype designation of four species and one form of the paper wasp genus Polistes Latreille, 1802, described from Japan, with notes on the scientific names of Japanese Polistes (Insecta: Hymenoptera; Vespidae, Polistinae). Natural History Bulletin of Ibaraki University 2: 247-262 [259] (distribution in Japan)

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