Polistes (Palisotius) Richards, 1973

Somavilla, Alexandre, Santos, Bernardo F., Carpenter, James M., Andena, Sérgio Ricardo & Oliveira, Márcio Luiz, 2021, Total-evidence Phylogeny of the New World Polistes Lepeletier, 1836, Paper Wasps (Vespidae, Polistinae, Polistini), American Museum Novitates 2021 (3973), pp. 1-44 : 18

Polistes (Palisotius) Richards, 1973 , status rev.

Palisotius Richards, 1973: 95, 96, 100. Type species: Polistes major Palisot de Beauvois, 1818 , by original designation.

INCLUDED SPECIES: P. major , P. palmarum , and P. paraguayensis .

DIAGNOSIS: Body large, about 25 mm long. Color usually dark yellow with brown marks or completely brown. Tergum I slightly wider than long, abruptly widened in lateral view. Malar space as long as wide or weakly transverse. Clypeus in female touching eye for an extent smaller than diameter of antennal socket; in males, clypeus touching the ventral edge of the eye. Pronotal fovea present. Epicnemial carina, when present, incomplete. Mesepisternal dorsal groove conspicuous, complete. Propodeal striae strong, developed at the most to propodeal margins. Posterior sternum laterally without tubercle. Male genitalia with aedeagus thin, teeth on apical portion intermediate; penis valve dilated, nonbilobed or weakly bilobed; digitus with developed apical process and rounded anteroventral lobe.