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Polistes

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Vespidae

Taxonomy

Polistes was named by Latreille (1802). It is extant. It is the type genus of Polistini, Polistides.

It was assigned to Vespariae by Latreille (1802); to Vespinae by Statz (1936); to Vespidae by Theobald (1937), Piton (1940) and Carpenter (1992); and to Polistini by Takahashi and Aiba (2023).

Species

P. attavina, P. industrius, P. kirbyanus, P. primitiva, P. signata, P. vergnei

Synonyms

Polistes primitiva was named by Heer (1864). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Oeningen (Zurich collection), which is in a Sarmatian crater lake limestone in the Upper Freshwater-Molasse Formation of Germany.

It was considered a nomen nudum by Heer (1864).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1802	Polistes Latreille p. 363
1864	Polistes primitiva Heer p. 387
1936	Polistes Statz p. 282
1937	Polistes Theobald p. 399
1940	Polistes Piton p. 226
1992	Polistes Carpenter
2023	Polistes Takahashi and Aiba p. 206

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
class	Insecta
—	Dicondylia
—	Paranotalia
subclass	Pterygota	()
—	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924

Rank	Name	Author
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
—	Holometabola
—	Hymenopterida
order	Hymenoptera
—	Unicalcarida
suborder	Apocrita	Gerstaecker 1867
—	Aculeata	()
superfamily	Vespoidea
family	Vespidae	()
subfamily	Polistinae	()
tribe	Polistini
genus	Polistes

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Polistes Latreille 1802

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†Polistes attavina Heer 1849

†Polistes industrius Theobald 1937

†Polistes kirbyanus Cockerell 1915

†Polistes signata Statz 1936

†Polistes vergnei Piton 1940

Invalid names: Polistes primitiva Heer 1864 [nomen nudum]

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

chitinc

Environment:

terrestrialc

Locomotion:

actively mobilep

Created:

2017-04-17 09:56:18

Modified:

2017-04-17 09:56:18

Source: c = class, p = phylum

References: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Selandian to the top of the Middle Pleistocene or 61.60000 to 0.12900 Ma

Collections (6 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Selandian	61.6 - 59.2	France (Auvergne)	P. vergnei (113685)
MP 23	33.9 - 28.4	France	P. industrius (122535)
Chattian	28.1 - 23.03	Germany (North Rhine-Westphalia)	P. signata (122010)
Badenian	13.65 - 12.7	Austria (Steiermark)	Vespa attavina (115306)
Sarmatian	12.7 - 11.608	Germany (Baden-Württemberg)	P. kirbyanus, P. primitiva (117252)
Middle Pleistocene	0.774 - 0.129	Japan	P. sp. (194482)