chinensis antennalis Pérez

Polistes biglumis var. antennalis Pérez, 1905: 81, female – “ Japon …, de Konéy-Tchéou” (lectotype Paris). - Kojima, 1997: 26 (designation of lectotype).

Polistes antennalis; Yano, 1932: 300, Fig. 582 (Japan).

Polistes chinensis var. antennalis; Liu, 1937: 207 (China; cat.).

Polistes chinensis antennalis; Morimoto, 1954: 235-245 (nesting in Japan). - Yoshikawa, 1962: 24 (list; “change to biglumis antennalis ”). - Yamane & Yamane, 1987: 219 (syn.: insepultus Giordani Soika). - Carpenter, 1996b: 19 (in subgenus Polistes; list). - Clapperton et al., 1996: 19–25 (distr. in New Zealand). - Clapperton & Dymock, 1997: 9–15 (ecology in New Zealand). - Kojima, 1998: 36, 213, Figs 197–211 (larva). - Cardale, 1999: 3–4 (Australia). - Clapperton, 1999: 11–19 (ecology in New Zealand). - Clapperton & Lo, 2000: 189–195 (nesting biology in New Zealand). - Santos et al., 2015: Figs 1–8, 9 (phylogenetic relationships). - Schmack et al., 2020: 441–452 (ecology in New Zealand); 2021: (ecology in New Zealand).

Polistes insepultus Giordani Soika, 1976: 288, Fig. 1b, female [North Korea] “Prov. South Pyongan, De-Sang san, 12 km NE from Pyongyan” (Budapest); also from two other localities. - Yamane & Yamane, 1987: 219 (syn. of chinensis antennalis Pérez).

Polistes chinensis; Clapperton et al., 1989: 315-323 (introduced New Zealand), - Beggs et al., 2011: 507 (introduced Australia). - Howse et al., 2022: 1–17 (prey in New Zealand).

Distribution: SE; N. S. W., A. C. T., Vic.; introduced into the Sydney area, established by 2008; native to the Palaearctic Region and introduced into New Zealand (1979).