Species Polistes (Gyrostoma) olivaceus (Degeer, 1773)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Vespa olivacea Degeer, C. 1773. Mémoires pour servir à l'Histoire des Insectes. Stockholm : Hosselberg Vol. 3 696 pp. [582 pl. 24 fig. 9].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown adult, America.

  Secondary source:

   Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. London : British Museum vii 580 pp. [523].
• Vespa hebraea Fabricius, J.C. 1787. Mantissa Insectorum sistens eorum species nuper detectas adiectis characteribus genericus, differentiis specificis, emendationibus, observationibus. Hafniae : Christ. Gottl. Proft. Vol. 1 xx 348 pp. [292].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMUC ♀, Indonesia.
• Vespa macaensis Fabricius, J.C. 1793. Entomologia Systematica Emendata et Aucta. Secundum, Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, adjectis synonimis [sic], locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. Hafniae : Christ. Gottl. Proft. Vol. 2 viii 519 pp. [259].
• Vespa cohabitatrix Curtiss, 1938.

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Uncertain - type listed as destroyed Male, female, Tautira, French Polynesia.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Accidentally introduced into Brisbane (1946, 1953), possibly temporarily established, normal distribution is Indian area to S China, Pacific islands, and accidentally introduced into New Zealand but not established.

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

Richards, O.W. 1978. The Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 61: 1-132 [13] (larva, redescription, nest)

Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. London : British Museum vii 580 pp. [523] (redescription, distribution)

Tan, J.-L., Van Achterberg, K., Duan, M.-J. & Chen, X.-X. 2014. An illustrated key to the species of subgenus Gyrostoma Kirby, 1828 (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Polistinae) from China, with discovery of Polistes (Gyrostoma) tenuispunctia Kim, 2001. Zootaxa 3785(3): 377–399 [386]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
20-Jul-2023	VESPIDAE	16-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
07-Aug-2012		09-Apr-2014	MODIFIED
		25-Jul-2012	MODIFIED