Subspecies Polistes (Polistella) stigma townsvillensis Giordani Soika, 1975
- 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] [two paratypes transferred to
Polistes bernardii duplicinctus Richards].Type data:
Holotype SAMA ♀ adult, Townsville, QLD. - Polistes (Polistella) townsvillensis austrinus Richards, O.W. 1978. The Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 61: 1-132 [37].
Type data:
Holotype ANIC ♀ adult, Bundaberg, QLD.
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 [17]
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia
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
History of changes
Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 20-Jul-2023 | VESPIDAE | 16-Jun-2023 | MODIFIED | |
| 07-Aug-2012 | 25-Jul-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 25-Jul-2012 | MODIFIED |