Subfamily Polistinae Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau 1835

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Vespidae

Alternative spelling: Polistides

Full reference: A. Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau. 1835. Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Hyménoptères. Tome Premier 1-547

Parent taxon: Vespidae according to X. Xu et al. 2026

See also Antropov 2014, Carpenter 1996 and Takahashi and Aiba 2023

Sister taxa: Agelaia, Archaeovespa, Eumeninae, Euparagiinae, Polybia, Priorvespinae, Protovespinae, Vespatulinae, Vespinae

Subtaxa: Palaeopolistes Palaeopolybia Polistini Protopolistes

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Type: Polistes

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Japan (1 collection)

• Miocene of Austria (1), Czechia (1), Germany (1)

• Oligocene of Czechia (1), France (1), Germany (1)

• Eocene of China (3), France (1), the United Kingdom (2)

• Paleocene of France (1)

Total: 14 collections including 15 occurrences

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