Taxonomic Decision for Subspecies Arrangement

• Richards, O.W. 1978. The Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 61: 1-132 [19]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

History of changes

• Vespa tepida 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] [366].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀ adult, Australia (as New Holland).
• Polistes malayanus 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. [60].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀ adult, Manokwari, New Guinea.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Richards, O.W. 1978. The Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 61: 1-132 [19]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Bougainville Is., Russell Is.

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

Hook, A. 1982. Observations on a declining nest of Polistes tepidus (F.) (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 21: 277-278 (biology)

History of changes