Polistes dominula
Creators: name: Carpenter, James M.
name: Brown, Graham R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Eumenidae
Polistes
Polistes dominula

description: dominula (Christ)
Vespa dominula Christ, 1791: 229, pl. 21 Fig. 1, female, male - [Germany] “Kronenberg an der Höh” (type depository unknown). - Kohl, 1898: 88 (syn. of biglumis “Fabricius” or P. gallica (Linnaeus)). - Das & Gupta, 1984: 404 (dominuta [!]).
Polistes italica Herrich-Schäffer, 1840: 196 [nomen nudum]; 1841: 39.
Polistes pectoralis “Meg. ” Herrich-Schäffer, 1841: 39, Fig. 179.6, male - “ Italien ” (type lost). - Schenck, 1853, Jahrb. Ver. Naturk. Nassau 9 (1): 43. - Kohl, 1898: 88 (syn. of biglumis “Fabricius” or P. gallica).
Polistes gallica var. Lefebvrei Guérin-Méneville, 1844: 447, pl. 72 Fig. 6, female, male - “ Égypte ” (? Genova). - de Saussure, 1853: 49 (Lefebvrii [!]; syn. of P. gallica (Linnaeus)). - Kohl, 1898: 88 (syn. of biglumis “Fabricius” or P. gallica (Linnaeus)). - Dalla Torre, 1894: 130 (cat.).
Polistes maculatus Rudow, 1888: 171 - [Turkey] “ Smyrna ” (type depository unknown). - Dalla Torre, 1894: 130 (? syn. of P. gallica (Linnaeus)). - Yoshikawa, 1962: 28 (syn. of P. gallicus (Linnaeus)).
Polistes gallica var. pectoralis; Dalla Torre, 1894: 130 (cat.).
Polistes gallica; Kohl, 1898: 88 (status unclear), 89. - Yoshikawa, 1962: 28 (gallicus; list). - Guiglia, 1972: 48 (key), 50 (gallicus; in subgenus Polistes; ethology), Figs II, VII, XV-XVIII, XXII, pl. I. - Richards, 1973: 97 (gallicus; in subgenus Polistes). - Hathaway, 1981: 169–173, Fig. 1 (gallicus; introduced U. S. A.: Massachusetts). - Das & Gupta, 1984 [1983]: 404 (gallicus; in subgenus Polistes; Pakistan); 1989: 42 (gallicus; key), Fig. 15a, map 3. - González, 1989 (introduced Chile). Misidentification.
Polistes Merceti Dusmet, 1903: 146 (key), 149, male - [Spain] “Los Molinos en Madrid ” (? Madrid).
Polistes gallicus var. rufescens du Buysson, 1912: 79 - “ Chine ” (? Paris).
Polistes gallicus gallicus; Blüthgen, 1961: 51 (key), 52, 53 (in subgenus Polistes). Misidentification.
Polistes gallicus lefebvrei; Yoshikawa, 1962: 28 (list).
Polistes gallicus pectoralis; Yoshikawa, 1962: 28 (list).
Polistes gallicus rufescens; Yoshikawa, 1962: 28 (list).
Polistes dominulus; Day, 1979: 63 (= gallicus auctt.). - Cardale, 1985: 209 (in subgenus Polistes; introduced W. A.; cat.). - Carpenter, 1996a: 54, Fig. 2.4(d) (in subgenus Polistes); 1996b: 19 (in subgenus Polistes; list). - Kojima, 1998: 34, 213, Figs 176–182 (larva). - Cervo et al., 2000, Ins. Soc. 47: 155-157 (spread in North America). - Sackmann et al., 2003: 72 (introduced Argentina). - Borkent & Cannings, 2004: 149 (introduced Canada: British Columbia). - Pickett et al., 2006: Figs 3–7 (phylogenetic relationships; relatedness). - Eardley et al., 2009: 226 (introduced South Africa). - Santos et al., 2015: Figs 1–8, 9 (dominula; phylogenetic relationships). - Ministry for Primary Industries (2016): 26 (introduced New Zealand). - Schmid-Egger et al., 2017: 64 (key), 94, Figs 10–12 (dominula). - Gray et al., 2019: 292 (introduced St. Helena). - Gereys et al., 2019: 245 (dominula; introduced Benin). - Howse et al., 2020: 784 (dominula; modeling of spread); 2022: 1–17 (dominula; prey in New Zealand).
Distribution: introduced into the Perth area, established by 1977; native to the Palaearctic Region and adventive in U.S.A.; Canada; Chile; Argentina; South Africa; New Zealand; St. Helena; Benin.
description: Published as part of Carpenter, James M. & Brown, Graham R., 2022, Catalogue of the Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), pp. 451-495 in Zootaxa 5214 (4) on pages 459-460, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5214.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7397617