Subspecies Polistes (Polistella) stigma bernardii Le Guillou, 1841
- Polistes bernardii Le Guillou, E.J.F. 1841. Description de 20 espèces nouvelles. appartenant à diverses familles d'Hyménoptères. Revue de Zoologie, Paris 4: 322-325 [325].
Type data:
Holotype whereabouts unknown ♀ adult, N Australia (as Aust. sept.). - Polistes (Polistella) bernardii duplicinctus Richards, O.W. 1978. The Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 61: 1-132 [28].
Type data:
Holotype ANIC ♀ adult, Millstream, WA. - [Polistes townsvillensis] Giordani Soika, A. 1975. Notulae vespidologicae XXXVII. Nuovi Polistes del continente australiano (Hymenoptera Vespidae). Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 107: 20-25 [22] [for species assignment of the two paratypes see Richards, O.W. 1978. The Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 61: 1–132 [28]].
Type data:
Status unknown, SAMA 1♂ 1♀ adult, Hamersley Range, Fortescue River, WA. - Polistes (Polistella) bernardii insulae Richards, O.W. 1978. The Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 61: 1-132 [30].
Type data:
Holotype ANIC ♀ adult, Dauan Is., QLD. - Polistes richardsi Giordani Soika, A. 1975. Notulae vespidologicae XXXVII. Nuovi Polistes del continente australiano (Hymenoptera Vespidae). Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 107: 20-25 [23].
Type data:
Holotype SAMA ♀ adult, Roper River, NT.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Carpenter, J.M. 1996. Distributional checklist of species of the genus Polistes (Hymenoptera: Vespidae; Polistinae, Polistini). American Museum Novitates 3188: 1-39 [15]
Distribution
States
Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Only published localities Darwin, Groote Eylandt, Millstream, Hamersley Range, W Kimberleys, Wotjulum, Dauan Is., Banks Is., Murray Is. and Thursday Is., also in New Guinea and Tahiti.
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. 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] [141] (larval description and illustrations as Polistes bernardii richardsi)
History of changes
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