Subspecies Polistes (Polistella) humilis humilis (Fabricius, 1781)
- Vespa humilis 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] [461].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH ♂ adult, Australia (as New Holland).Subsequent designation references:
Richards, O.W. 1978. The Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 61: 1-132 [43]. - Polistes tasmaniensis 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. [66 pl.vi, fig. 6 pl. viii, fig. 3].
Type data:
Lectotype MNHP ♀ adult, Australia (as New Holland).Subsequent designation references:
Richards, O.W. 1978. The Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 61: 1-132 [43]. Type data:
Holotype BMNH ♀ adult (seen 1929 by L.F. Graham), Australia (as New Holland).- Polistes humilis pseudoscach Giordani Soika, A. 1975. Notulae vespidologicae XXXVII. Nuovi Polistes del continente australiano (Hymenoptera Vespidae). Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 107: 20-25 [21].
Type data:
Holotype AM ♀ adult (not found), Dubbo, NSW.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Richards, O.W. 1978. The Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 61: 1-132 [43]
Distribution
States
Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria
Extra Distribution Information
Accidentally introduced to New Zealand.
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
Kojima, J. 1998. Larvae of social wasps (Insecta: Hymenoptera; Vespidae). Natural History Bulletin of Ibaraki University 2: 7-227 [21] (larval description and illustrations)
Owen, M.D. 1979. Chemical components in the venoms of Ropalidia revolutionalis and Polistes humilis (Hymenoptera, Vespidae). Toxicon 17: 519-523 (venom analysis)
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 (venom apparatus)
History of changes
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