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Subgenus
Gyrostoma Kirby, 1828 |
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Polistes olivaceus
Degeer, 1773 (Madagascar, Mauritius, Réunion, Zanzibar.
Indigenous to SE Asia, introduced to
Afrotropical region and many Pacific ocean islands) |
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Subgenus
Polistella Ashmead, 1904 |
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Polistes albocalcaratus
Buysson, 1905 (Madagascar)
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Polistes aquilinus
Buysson, 1905 (Cameroon,
Congo Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Liberia,
Sierra Leone)
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Polistes bituberculatus
Buysson, 1905 (Madagascar)
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Polistes defectivus
Gerstaecker, 1871 (Congo,
Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa
(Mpumalanga, Kwazulu-Natal, Western Cape), Tanzania, Zimbabwe)
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Polistes ellenbergi
Buysson, 1908 (Cameroon,
Equatorial Guinea, Congo Republic, Liberia) |
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Polistes fastidiosus
de Saussure, 1853 (Benin,
Burkina Faso, Congo, Guinea-Bissau, including Zanzibar, Ivory
Coast, Kenya, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Senegal,
Somalia, South Africa (Gauteng, Cape Province),
Sudan, Tanzania, Yemen, Zambia) |
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Polistes haugi
Buysson, 1906 (Cameroon,
Congo Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea,
Liberia, Nigeria) |
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Polistes madecassus
de Saussure, 1853 (Madagascar)
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Polistes
madiburensis
von Schulthess, 1921 (Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe)
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Polistes saussurei
Dalla Torre, 1894 (Comoros, Madagascar)
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Polistes sikorae
de Saussure, 1900 (Madagascar) |
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Polistes smithii
smithii
de Saussure, 1853 (Congo, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Zanzibar, Zimbabwe) |
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Polistes
smithii neavei von Schulthess, 1921
(Congo, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Zanzibar,
Zambia) |
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Polistes tristis
Meade Waldo, 1911 (Kenya)
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Polistes tullgreni
Schulz, 1906 (Cameroon, Congo) |
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Subgenus
Polistes Latreille, 1802 |
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Polistes africanus
Palisot
de Beauvais,
1818 (Cameroon,
Congo, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, São Tomé, Senegal, Somalia,
South Africa (Kwazulu-Natal,
Western Cape),
Tanzania, Zanzibar)
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Polistes albicinctus
de Saussure, 1890 (Madagascar)
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Polistes badius
Gerstaecker, 1871 (Botswana,
Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau,
Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo,
Yemen, Zimbabwe) |
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Polistes dominula (Christ, 1791)
(Ethiopia. Introduced to South Africa: Western Cape. Widespread
in Palaearctic region) |
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Polistes
loveridgei Bequaert, 1938 (Ethiopia, Tanzania)
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Polistes macrocephalus
Bequaert, 1918 (Congo)
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Polistes marginalis
marginalis Fabricius, 1804
(Burkina Faso, Ethiopia,
Eritrea, Kenya, Lesotho, Niger, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, South
Africa (Limpopo, Free State, Kwazulu-Natal, Western and
Eastern Cape), Tanzania including Zanzibar,
Yemen) |
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Polistes marginalis
baidoensis
Giordani Soika, 1944 (Ethiopia, Somalia)
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Polistes marginalis
lindensis
Giordani Soika, 1981 (Tanzania) |
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Polistes marginalis
meruensis
Giordani Soika, 1981 (Kenya, Tanzania) |
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Polistes mysteriosus
Bequaert, 1938
(Congo)
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Polistes ornatus
Lepeletier, 1836 (Congo, Kenya, Liberia)
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Polistes tenellus
tenellus
du Buysson, 1905 (Liberia, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial
Guinea, Congo Republic, Congo) |
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Polistes tenellus
lahejensis Giordani Soika, 1981 (Yemen
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Polistes tenellus
minutissimus Giordani Soika, 1981 (Ethiopia) |
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Unrecognised species |
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Polistes flavipennis de Saussure, 1853 (South
Africa: Western Cape) |
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Polistes rubidus Lepeletier, 1836 (South
Africa: Western Cape) |
Distribution
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Worldwide.
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Biology |
Social, constructing communal paper nests comprising a
single horizontally orientated comb with downward pointing cells (Ropalidia
construct vertically orientated combs with horizontally
orientated cells). Larvae are fed
on chewed-up, soft-bodied insects such as caterpillars. See
Polistinae
Paper wasp home page for more details. |
References |
Benadé PC, Veldtman R, Samways MJ & Roets F. 2014.
Rapid range expansion of the invasive wasp Polistes dominula
(Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Polistinae) and first record of parasitoids on
this species and the native Polistes marginalis in the Western
Cape Province of South Africa. African Entomology 22(1): 220-225.
doi:
http://dx.doi.org/10.4001/003.022.0104
Bequaert, J.C. 1918.
A revision of the Vespidae of the Belgian Congo based on the collection of the
American Museum Congo Expedition: with a list of Ethiopian diplopterous wasps.
Bulletin of the AMNH 39: 1-384.
Carpenter, J. M. & M.
Madl. 2009. A catalogue of the Vespidae of the Malagasy Subregion (Insecta,
Hymenoptera). Linzer Biologische Beiträge 41 (2): 1871-1935.
Eardley, C., Koch, F., Wood, A.R. 2009.
Polistes dominulus (Christ, 1791) (Hymenoptera: Polistinae: Vespidae) newly
recorded from South Africa : short communication.
African Entomology 17:
226-227.
Guilherme J.L. & Wit, P. 2015. First records for
Guinea-Bissau of Vitelline Masked Weaver and its nesting association with a
paper wasp. ABC Bulletin 22: 200 - 203.
Picker,
M., Griffiths, C & Weaving, A. 2002. Field Guide to Insects of South Africa.
Struik Publishers, Cape Town.
van Zyl C, Addison P, Veldtman R. 2018.
The invasive Vespidae in South Africa: potential management strategies and
current status. African Entomology 26: 267-285.
http://dx.doi.org/10.4001/003.026.0267 |
Credits
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Photographs
© Vida van der Walt (Pretoria) or © Marian Oliver (Cape Town) or © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa) or © Mike Picker & Charles Griffiths (University of Cape Town)
or Alan Weaving (published
in Struik's
Field Guide to Insects of South Africa).
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