Bibliography for Polistes (Polistella) Ashmead, 1904

• Ashmead, W.H. 1904. Descriptions of new genera and species of Hymenoptera from the Philippine Islands. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 28(1387): 127-158
• 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
• 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
• 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]
• Giordani Soika, A. 1975. Notulae vespidologicae XXXVII. Nuovi Polistes del continente australiano (Hymenoptera Vespidae). Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 107: 20-25
• Kojima, J. 1987. Descriptions of mature larvae of eight Australian Polistinae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 26(2): 141-148 [Date published 29/05/1987]
• Kojima, J. 1998. Larvae of social wasps (Insecta: Hymenoptera; Vespidae). Natural History Bulletin of Ibaraki University 2: 7-227
• Kojima, J. & Carpenter, J.M. 1997. A taxonomic note and nest description of an Australian paper wasp, Polistes variabilis (Fabricius) (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Polistinae). Japanese Journal of Entomology 3(2): 117-122 [Date published 15/11/1997]
• Kojima, J. & Kojima, K. 1988. Three new species of Polistes Latreille (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) from Papua New Guinea, with notes on the taxonomic status of the subgenus Stenopolistes van der Vecht. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 27(1): 69-80 [Date published 29/02/1988]
• Le Guillou, E.J.F. 1841. Description de 20 espèces nouvelles. appartenant à diverses familles d'Hyménoptères. Revue de Zoologie, Paris 4: 322-325
• Meade-Waldo, G. 1911. New species of Diploptera in the collection of the British Museum. iii. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 7: 98-113
• Owen, M.D. 1979. Chemical components in the venoms of Ropalidia revolutionalis and Polistes humilis (Hymenoptera, Vespidae). Toxicon 17: 519-523
• 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
• Robertson, P.L. 1968. A morphological and functional study of the venom apparatus in representatives of some major groups of Hymenoptera. Australian Journal of Zoology 16: 133-166
• 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.
• van der Vecht, J. 1972. The subgenera Megapolistes and Stenopolistes in the Solomon Isalnds (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Polistes Latreille). pp. 87-106 in Asahina, S., Gressitt, J.L., Hikada, Z., Mishida, T. & Namura, K. (eds). Entomological Essays to Commemorate the Retirement of Professor K. Yasumatsu 1971. Tokyo : Hokuryukan Publishing Co. Ltd vi 389 pp.

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