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Issue: Vol. 7 No. 2: April 2024
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2024-04-19
DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.7.2.4
Page range: 217-220
Abstract views: 115
PDF downloaded: 3

A new genus of polistine wasps from the Oligocene of Aix-en-Provence, France (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)

Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, 200 Central Park West, New York, New York 10024-5192, USA; Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB), Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Sorbonne Université, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Université des Antilles, CP50, 57 rue Cuvier, F-75005 Paris, France; Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú; Departamento de Entomología, Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Avenida Antonio Álvarez de Arenales 1256 Jesús María, Lima 14, Perú; Museum at Prairiefire, 5801 West 135th Street, Overland Park, Kansas 66223, USA
Insect Ecology Department, Institute of Ecology & Biological Resources (IEBR), Vietnam Academy of Science & Technology, 18 Hoang Quoc Viet Road, Nghia Do, Cau Giay, Hanoi, Vietnam; Graduate University of Science and Technology, Vietnam Academy of Science & Technology, 18 Hoang Quoc Viet Road, Nghia Do, Cau Giay, Hanoi, Vietnam
Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB), Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Sorbonne Université, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Université des Antilles, CP50, 57 rue Cuvier, F-75005 Paris, France
Chattian eusocial paper wasp Polistinae Ropalidiini taxonomy Hymenoptera Vespidae

Abstract

Polistine wasps (Vespidae: Polistinae) are iconic eusocial wasps found throughout the world, famed for their range of social organization and therefore a favorite subject for sociobiological studies (e.g., Gadagkar, 2001; Piekarski et al., 2018). The subfamily is currently organized into four tribes: the New World Epiponini and Mischocyttarini, the cosmopolitan Polistini, and the Afrotropical, Indomalayan, and Australian Ropalidiini.

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