variabilis (Fabricius)

Vespa variabilis Fabricius, 1781: 466 - “in nova Hollandia ” (holotype male London); 1787: 288. - Gmelin, 1790: 2756. - Olivier, 1792: 690. - Zimsen, 1964: 403 (list).

Polistes variabilis; Fabricius, 1804: 273. - de Saussure, 1853: 66. - Froggatt, 1892: 233 (cat.). - Dalla Torre, 1894: 135 (cat.); 1904: 71 (cat.). - Meade-Waldo, 1911: 104 (key). - Cheesman, 1951: 991 (type compared to P. comis n. sp.). - Yoshikawa, 1962: 40 (list). - Richards, 1978: 10 (key), 40 (in subgenus Polistella; redescription; Qld.). - Cardale, 1985: 213 (in subgenus Polistella; cat.). - Carpenter, 1996a: 54 (in subgenus Polistella); 1996b: 17 (in subgenus Polistella; list). - Kojima, 1998: 27, 213, Figs 126–141 (larva). - Kojima & Carpenter, 1997b: 117–122, Figs 1, 3, 6 (diagnostic characters; nest; Qld.). - Santos et al., 2015: Figs 1–8, 9 (phylogenetic relationships). - Nguyen et al., 2018: Figs 1–3 (phylogenetic relationships).

Polistes humilis var. variabilis; Bequaert, 1928: 58.

Polistes humilis variabilis; Giordani Soika, 1975: 21. - Richards, 1978: 42 (compared with P. sgarambus; “seems to be very rare in Northern Territory ”).

Distribution: NE coastal; Qld.