Polistes stigma is a species of paper wasp from the Paleotropics.[1]

Polistes stigma
P. stigma tamulus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Vespidae
Subfamily: Polistinae
Genus: Polistes
Species:
P. stigma
Binomial name
Polistes stigma
Fabricius, 1793

Distribution

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P. stigma is widely distributed from India south to Australia and east to Taiwan and Fiji.[1]

Subspecies

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Of 19 described subspecies, most are island endemics. The exceptions are P. s. bernardii in Australia and New Guinea, P. s. stigma in Mainland Southeast Asia and Indonesia, P. s. townsvillensis in Australia and P. s. tamulus in India and Sri Lanka.[1]

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References

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  1. ^ a b c Carpenter, James M. (1996). "Distributional Checklist of Species of the Genus Polistes (Hymenoptera: Vespidae; Polistinae, Polistini)" (PDF). American Museum Novitates (3188): 1–39. Retrieved 22 December 2018.
  2. ^ Castro, Leopoldo; Dvořák, Libor (2009). "New and noteworthy records of vespid wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) from the Palaearctic region (II)". Boletín Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa (44): 295–304. Retrieved 18 September 2023.
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