Polistes olivaceus ( De Geer, 1773 )

Siddiqui, Junaid Ali, Bodlah, Imran, Carpenter, James M., Naeem, Muhammad, Ahmad, Munir & Bodlah, Muhammad Adnan, 2015, Vespidae (Hymenoptera) of the Pothwar region of Punjab, Pakistan, Zootaxa 3914 (5), pp. 501-524 : 513-514

Polistes olivaceus ( De Geer, 1773)

( Figs 27 a–b)

Vespa olivacea De Geer, 1773: 582 , pl. 29, fig. 9, “Amérique” (? Stockholm). Vespa hebraea Fabricius, 1787: 292 , “in India orientali” (København).

Vespa undata Olivier, 1792: 684 , “Indes orientales” (type depository unknown). Vespa macaensis Fabricius, 1793: 259 , “in Macao Indiae” (London).

Material examined. Islamabad, 19.ix.12, 3♀; Rawalpindi, 14.iv.12, 2♀; Attock, 20.v.12, 1♀, 26.v.12, 1♀; Chakwal, 16.iv.12, 2♀; Jhelum, 1.vi.13, 2♀.

Distribution. Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan, Indonesia, Australia, New Caledonia, Chile, Myanmar, Cambodia, Malaysia Egypt, New Zealand, India, Nepal, Oman, Mauritius, Philippines, Madagascar, Singapore, Japan, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Fiji, Thailand, Laos, Tonga, Vietnam and introduced into Hawaii, Australia and New Zealand ( Das & Gupta 1989, Carpenter 1996, Mahmood et al. 2012).

Comments. Collected specimens were compared with the published description of Polistes olivaceus De Geer given by Mahmood et al. (2012). This species is distinguished by the thorax and mesopleuron yellow orange with black markings. New locality records have been provided for this species.

Figures

FIGURE 27. Polistes olivaceus. a. Hind leg and metasoma, lateral view. b. Head, frontal view.