Polistes stigma, Giordani Soika

Carpenter, James M. & Brown, Graham R., 2022, Catalogue of the Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), Zootaxa 5214 (4), pp. 451-495 : 458

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5214.4.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7405528
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scientific name	Polistes stigma
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stigma townsvillensis Giordani Soika View in CoL View at ENA

Polistes townsvillensis Giordani Soika, 1975: 22 View in CoL , female, male - “ N. Queensland: Townsville” (holotype female Melbourne); also from Amaden; and N. T.; W. A. [two paratypes transferred to Polistes bernardii duplicinctus View in CoL by Richards, 1978] - Borsato & Ratti, 1999: 102 (list).

Polistes townsvillensis townsvillensis View in CoL ; Richards, 1978: 9 (key), 36 (in subgenus Polistella ; Qld., N. T., W. A.). - Cardale, 1985: 212 (in subgenus Polistella ; cat.).

Polistes townsvillensis austrinus Richards, 1978: 9 View in CoL (key), 37, female, male (in subgenus Polistella ) - “ Queensland Q1, Bundaberg” (holotype female Canberra). - Cardale, 1985: 213 (in subgenus Polistella ; cat.). - Petersen, 1987: 234 (? syn. of stigma View in CoL townsvillensis Giordani Soika View in CoL ). - Field & Darby, 1991: 195 (screened for biocontrol agent Sphecophaga vesparum View in CoL ).

Polistes stigma townsvillensis View in CoL ; Petersen, 1987: 227. - Carpenter, 1996a: 53 (stigmus; in subgenus Polistella ); 1996b: 17 (in subgenus Polistella ; list). - Jourdan & Mille, 2006: 209 ( New Caledonia). - Brown, 2009: 30 (in subgenus Polistella ; North Coast, Northern Gulf). - Gusenleitner & Madl, 2011: 138 ( New Caledonia; cat.).

Distribution: NE coastal, N Gulf, N coastal, SE coastal, Murray-Darling basin; Qld., W. A., N. T., N. S. W., Vic.; introduced into New Caledonia.