Taxonavigation

Polistes dominula (male)

Familia: Vespidae
Subfamiliae: Eumeninae - Euparagiinae - Masarinae - Polistinae - Stenogastrinae - Vespinae

Name

Vespidae

References

• Carpenter, J.M. 2008: Review of the Hawaiian Vespidae (Hymenoptera). Bishop Museum occasional papers, (99) full article (PDF)

• Dos Santos, J.N.A. Jr, Silveira, O. T. & Carpenter, J.M. 2015: Phylogeny of Protopolybia Ducke, 1905 and taxonomic revision of the Protopolybia exigua species-group (Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Polistinae), with description of four new species. Zootaxa 3956(2): 151–182. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3956.2.1 . Preview (PDF) Reference page. 

• Dvořák, L.; Roberts, S.P.M. 2006: Key to the paper and social wasps of Central Europe (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 46: 221–244. PDF Reference page. 
• Gusenleitner, J. 2010: Order Hymenoptera, family Vespidae. Arthropod fauna of the UAE, 3: 422–467. [not seen]
• Hensen, R. V. & L. H. M. Blommers 1987: Review of the Malagasy species of Belonogaster Saussure (Hymenoptera, Vespidae). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 130 (1): 11–31.
• Kojima, J. & C. van Achterberg 1997: List of the primary types of social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) deposit in the Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum, Leiden, and the Zoölogisch Museum, Amsterdam. Zoologische Meededelingen 71 (14): 157–169. Full article:
• Kojima, J.-I. et al. 2011: On the species-group taxa of Taiwanese social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) described and/or treated by J. Sonan. Zootaxa, 2920: 42–64. Preview PDF

• Rafi, M.A., Carpenter, J.M., Qasim, M., Shehzad, A., Zia, A., Khan, M.R., Mastoi, M.I., Naz, F., Ilyas, M., Shah, M. & Bhatti, A.R. 2017. The vespid fauna of Pakistan. Zootaxa 4362(1): 1–28. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4362.1.1 Reference page. 
• Richards, O.W. 1978: The Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Australian journal of zoology, supplementary series, (61) DOI: 10.1071/AJZS061

• dos Santos, J.N.A. Jr, Silveira, O.T. & Carpenter, J.M. 2017. A new species of the genus Protopolybia Ducke, 1905 (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Polistinae), with taxonomic contributions to the exigua species-group. Zootaxa 4286(3): 432–438. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4286.3.11 . Reference page. 

• dos Santos, J.N.A., Silveira, O.T. & Carpenter, J.M. 2018. Taxonomic revision of the Protopolybia sedula species-group (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Polistinae), with an new identification key to species. Zootaxa 4403(1): 87–98. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4403.1.4 Reference page. 
• Vecht, J. van der; Carpenter, J.M. 1990: A catalogue of the genera of the Vespidae (Hymenoptera). Zoologische Verhandelingen, 260: 1–62. ISSN: 0024-1652

• Mahmood, K. et al. 2012: To the knowledge of Vespidae (Hymenoptera) of Pakistan. Zootaxa 3318: 26–50. Preview Reference page. 
• ZooBank

Vernacular names

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