Species Polistes (Gyrostoma) erythrinus Holmgren, 1868

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• Polistes erythrinus Holmgren, A.E. 1868. Hymenoptera, species novas descripsit. Kongliga Svenska Fregatten Eugenies resa omkring Jordeni under befäl af C.A. Virgen Aren 1851–53. II Zoologi 1 Insecta pp. 391–442 pl. viii. [440].

  Type data:

   Holotype NHRM ♀ adult, Sydney, NSW.

Distribution

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Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

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 [10] (larval description and illustrations)

Kojima, J. & Spradbery, J.P. 1994. Ropalidia plebeiana Richards (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) in Canberra. Australian Entomologist 21(4): 113-117

Richards, O.W. 1978. The Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 61: 1-132 [15] (redescription, nest, biology)

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