Polistes takasagonus Sonan 1943
Creators: name: Kojima, Jun-Ichi
name: Saito, Fuki
name: Nguyen, Lien Thi Phuong
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Eumenidae
Polistes
Polistes takasagonus

description: Polistes takasagonus Sonan 1943 [Polistes (Polistella) takasagonus Sonan 1943]
Sonan (1943) described Polistes takasagonus based on 89 Ƥ and 5 3 collected at various localities in Taiwan, such as Arisan, Chipon, Giran, Hassen-zan, Heichin, Kappan-san, Karenkou, Koushun, Kuraru, Naifunbo, Naro, Riyohen, Shinchiku, Taipei, Taitou, Takeyama and Urai. In TARI we located 5 Ƥ and 4 3 that have Type or Paratype labels, which would be the specimens that Starr (1992: 128) erroneously referred to “ holotype Ƥ, 4 paratype Ƥ, 4 paratype 3”. In addition to them, we located 26 Ƥ that are highly possibly from the type series. The female specimen from ”Heichin” and with Type label is here designated as the lectotype of Polistes takasagonus Sonan, 1943, and remaining 30 Ƥ and 4 3 are paralectotypes.
Type material. LECTOTYPE (designated here): Ƥ labeled “Heichin / 30 VI 1936 / Col. J. Sonan”, Type label, “ Polistes Ƥ / takasagonus / Sonan / DET. J. SONAN ”, and “141”. PARALECTOTYPES: 1 Ƥ, “ Formosa / Arisan, 1918 / X 2–23. / J. Sonan, / M. Yoshino”; 1 Ƥ, “Giran / 29 VII 1928 / Col. J. Sonan”; 3 Ƥ, “ 7 VI 1914 / Taito / I. Nitobe”; 1 Ƥ, “Hassen-zan / FORMOSA / 8.VI.1941 / Col. J. Sonan”; 2 Ƥ, “ NARO / 21.VIII –1928 / Col. J. Sonan”; 1 3 “Kaguhara (Taipei) / 3 IX 1929 / Col. J. Sonan”, Allotype label, “No 1 3”, “ Polistes 3 / takasagonus / Sonan / DET. J. SONAN ”, and “146”; 1 Ƥ, “Kappanzan / 16 V 1930 / Col. J. Sonan”; 2 Ƥ, “ Formosa / Koshun, 1918 / IV 25–V 25. / J. Sonan / K. Miyake, / M. Yoshino”; 1 Ƥ, “Kuraru / 13 X 1926 / Col. J. Sonan”; 1 3 [metasoma missing] “Makazayazaya / 9. X. 1926, Heito / Col. J. Sonan”, Paratype label, “ Polistes 3 / takasagonus / Sonan / DET. J. SONAN ”, and “147”; 1 Ƥ, Paratype label, “Mizuho / 29 VII 1942 / Col. C. Matsuda”, “ Polistes Ƥ / takasagonus / Sonan / DET. J. SONAN ”, and “142”; 1 Ƥ, “Naihunpo / 19 IX 1924 / T. Shiraki / J. Sonan”, “ Polistes Sauss / mandarinus / Det. T. Shiraki”, Paratype label, “ Polistes Ƥ / takasagonus / Sonan / DET. J. SONAN ”, and “144”; 1 Ƥ, “RIYOHEN – RATO / SEPT –5–1929 / R. TAKAHASHI”; 1 Ƥ, “ Formosa / Shinchiku, –18, / VII. 1–30. / J. Sonan / K. Miyake”; 1 Ƥ, “Shinchiku / 9.X.1928 / Col. J. Sonan”; 1 Ƥ, “Mizuho / 30.VII 1942 / Col. C. Matsuda”; 2 Ƥ, “Taihoku / 24 VI 1926 / Col. J. Sonan”; 2 Ƥ, “Taihoku / 29 VI 1926 / Col. J. Sonan”; 1 3 “Taihoku / 1 VIII 1925 / Col. J. Sonan”, “No. Polistres / 9”, Paratype label, “ Polistes 3 / takasagonus / Sonan / DET. J. SONAN ”, and “149”; 1 3, “TAIHOKU / FORMOSA / 25 VI 1938 / COL. J. SONAN ”, “No 21”, Paratype label, “ Polistes 3 / takasagonus / Sonan / DET. J. SONAN ”, and “148”; 1 Ƥ, “Taihoku / 1 VIII 1925 / Col. J. Sonan”;1 Ƥ, “Taihoku / FORMOSA / 25 VI 1938 / COL. J. SONAN ”; 2 Ƥ, “Chipon / 20 VI 1943 / Col. J. Sonan”; 1 Ƥ, “ 12 / IX 1910 / Taipin / Col. T. Shiraki”, “3155”, “ Polistes Sauss / mandarinus / Det. T. Shiraki”, Paratype label, “ Polistes Ƥ / takasagonus / Sonan / DET. J. SONAN ”, and “145”; 2 Ƥ, “ Formosa / Taito, 1919 / II 25–III 27 / S. Inamura, / J. Sonan, / M. Yoshino”; 1 Ƥ [body largely discolored; pedicel and flagellum of right antenna missing], “Urai / 18 X 1925 / Col. J. Sonan”, “ Polistes Sauss / mandarinus / Det. T. Shiraki”, Paratype label, “ Polistes Ƥ / takasagonus / Sonan / DET. J. SONAN ”, and “143”.
description: Published as part of Kojima, Jun-Ichi, Saito, Fuki & Nguyen, Lien Thi Phuong, 2011, On the species-group taxa of Taiwanese social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) described and / or treated by J. Sonan, pp. 42-64 in Zootaxa 2920 on page 50, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.201805