Bibliography for Polistes (Gyrostoma) Kirby, 1828

• Cameron, P. 1906. Hymenoptera I [all families except Apidae and Formicidae]. pp. 41-65 in Wichmann, A. (ed.). Nova Guinea, des Résultats de l'Expédition scientifique Néerlandaise à la Nouvelle-Guinée en 1903, sous les auspices de Arthur Wichmann, Chef de l'Expédition. Leiden : E.J. Brill Vol. 5.
• Carpenter, J.M. 1996. Distributional checklist of species of the genus Polistes (Hymenoptera: Vespidae; Polistinae, Polistini). American Museum Novitates 3188: 1-39
• Carpenter, J.M. & Brown, G.R. 2022. Catalogue of the Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Zootaxa 5214(4): 451–495
• Degeer, C. 1773. Mémoires pour servir à l'Histoire des Insectes. Stockholm : Hosselberg Vol. 3 696 pp.
• Fabricius, J.C. 1775. Systema Entomologiae, sistens Insectorum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, adiectis Synonymis, Locis, Descriptionibus, Observationibus. Flensburgi et Lipsiae [= Flensburg & Leipzig] : Kortii xxxii 832 pp. [Date published 17 April]
• Fabricius, J.C. 1781. Species insectorum, exhibentes eorum differentias specificas, synonyma auctorum, loca natalia, metamorphosin adiectis observationibus, descriptionibus. Hamburg et Kilonii : C. E. Bonn Vol. 1 viii + 552 pp. [Date published March 1781: Evenhuis 1997]
• Fabricius, J.C. 1787. Mantissa Insectorum sistens eorum species nuper detectas adiectis characteribus genericus, differentiis specificis, emendationibus, observationibus. Hafniae : Christ. Gottl. Proft. Vol. 1 xx 348 pp.
• Fabricius, J.C. 1793. Entomologia Systematica Emendata et Aucta. Secundum, Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, adjectis synonimis [sic], locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. Hafniae : Christ. Gottl. Proft. Vol. 2 viii 519 pp.
• Holmgren, A.E. 1868. Hymenoptera, species novas descripsit. Kongliga Svenska Fregatten Eugenies resa omkring Jordeni under befäl af C.A. Virgen Aren 1851–53. II Zoologi 1 Insecta pp. 391–442 pl. viii.
• Hook, A. 1982. Observations on a declining nest of Polistes tepidus (F.) (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 21: 277-278
• Kirby, W.F. 1888. On the insects (exclusive of Coleoptera and Lepidoptera) of Christmas Island. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1888: 546-555
• Kirby, W. in Kirby, W. & Spence, W. 1826. An Introduction to Entomology: or elements of the natural history of insects. London : Longmans Vol. 3 732 pp.
• Kirby, W. in Kirby, W. & Spence, W. 1828. An Introduction to Entomology: or elements of the natural history of insects. London : Longmans Vol. 2 523 pp.
• Kojima, J. 1998. Larvae of social wasps (Insecta: Hymenoptera; Vespidae). Natural History Bulletin of Ibaraki University 2: 7-227
• Kojima, J. & Spradbery, J.P. 1994. Ropalidia plebeiana Richards (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) in Canberra. Australian Entomologist 21(4): 113-117
• Richards, O.W. 1973. The subgenera of Polistes Latreille (Hymenoptera, Vespidae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 17: 85-104
• Richards, O.W. 1978. The Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 61: 1-132
• Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. London : British Museum vii 580 pp.
• Saussure, H. de 1853. Études sur la Famille des Vespides. 2. Monographie des Guêpes Sociales, ou de la Tribu des Vespiens, ouvrage faisant suite à la Monographies des Guêpes Solitaires. Paris : Masson 1-96 pls 2-8, 13.
• Tan, J.-L., Van Achterberg, K., Duan, M.-J. & Chen, X.-X. 2014. An illustrated key to the species of subgenus Gyrostoma Kirby, 1828 (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Polistinae) from China, with discovery of Polistes (Gyrostoma) tenuispunctia Kim, 2001. Zootaxa 3785(3): 377–399
• van der Vecht, J. 1968. The Rhynchium species of the Philippine Islands (Hymenoptera, Eumenidae). Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden) 42: 255-259

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