Polistes (Gyrostoma) olivaceus ( De Geer, 1773 )

Kumar, P. Girish, Sureshan, P. M. & Nikhil, K., 2019, New distributional records of Vespidae (Hymenoptera: Vespoidea) for Telangana, India, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 119 (4) : -

1. Polistes (Gyrostoma) olivaceus ( De Geer, 1773)

(Image 1) 1773. Vespa olivacea De Geer , 582. Type: Sex not mentioned,

America (NHRM). 1996. Polistes (Gyrostoma) olivaceus ; Carpenter, 5.

Materials examined: INDIA: Telangana , Mahbubnagar , Nagarjunsagar Srisailam Tiger Reserve, Mannanur, 1♀ ,

11.iv.1985, Coll. S. Chatterjee & Party, NZC Regd. No. 12096/H3; Medak, Medak, 1♀ , 11.xii.1993, Coll. A.K. Poddar & Party, NZC Regd. No. 12097/H3 .

Distribution: India: Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Odisha, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Telangana ( Girish Kumar, 2010), Tripura, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, West Beng al., Elsewhere: Afghanistan, Amirantes, Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, Chagos Archipelago, Chile (introduced), China, Egypt, Fiji, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Laos, Madagascar, Malaysia, Marianas, Marquesas, Mauritius, Myanmar, Nepal, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Reunion, Samoa, Seychelles, Singapore, Society Is., Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Thailand, Tongas, Tuamotu Archipelago, U.S.A., Vietnam. ( Girish Kumar 2010, Nugroho et al., 2011, Tan et al., 2014b, Girish Kumar & Sharma 2015, Pham & Li 2015, Dorji et al., 2016, Rafi et al., 2017).