Species Polistes (Gyrostoma) facilis Saussure, 1853

Museums

Regional Maps

• Polistes facilis 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. [53].

  Type data:

   Holotype MZUT, Australia (as New Holland).

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Only published localities Gladstone, Rockhampton and Yeppoon.

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: predator, sedentary.

Extra Ecological Information

Social, nests of 'paper'.

 

General References

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

Richards, O.W. 1978. The Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 61: 1-132 [14] (redescription)

 

History of changes

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