Polistes associus (Kohl, 1898) recorded from Slovakia after 66 years (Hymenoptera, Vespidae)

By

Goffová, Katarína
Matisková, Dáša
Selnekovič, Dávid
Purkart, Adrián
Smetana, Vladimír

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2021-2-19

Original Publication

Check list : journal of species lists and distribution

Volume

17

Series / Issue

Issue: 1

Pages

247--252

Subjects

Distributional range , Europe , Faunistics , Identification , paper wasps , Polistinae , Project LIFE

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

[São Paulo, Brazil] Luís Felipe Toledo 2005-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15560/17.1.247

 

Abstract

We present the second record of Polistes associus (Kohl, 1898) (Hymenoptera, Vespidae) from Slovakia after 66 years and discuss the distribution of this species in Europe. Morphological features of the species are compared with those of other morphologically similar congeners occurring in Central Europe, Polistes bischoffi Weyrauch, 1937 and Polistes nimpha (Christ, 1791), and the differential diagnoses are supplemented with figures.