Subspecies Polistes (Polistella) humilis synoecus Saussure, 1853
- Polistes synoecus 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. [65 pl. vi fig. 5].
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 [46]. - Polistes variabilis reginae Meade-Waldo, G. 1911. New species of Diploptera in the collection of the British Museum. iii. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 7: 98-113 [101] [described as variety].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH ♀ adult (seen 1929 by L.F. Graham), Cooktown, QLD. - Polistes humilis xanthorrhoicus 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 BMNH ♀ adult, N QLD. - Polistes humilis clarior Giordani Soika, A. 1975. Notulae vespidologicae XXXVII. Nuovi Polistes del continente australiano (Hymenoptera Vespidae). Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 107: 20-25 [22].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH ♀ adult, N QLD.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Richards, O.W. 1978. The Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 61: 1-132 [46]
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Accidentally introduced to Perth area in about 1950, also introduced into the Society Ils.
IBRA
NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Jarrah Forest (JF)
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] [142] (larval description and illustrations)
History of changes
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