schach (Fabricius)

Vespa schach Fabricius, 1781: 461 - “in nova Hollandia ” (holotype female London); 1787. - Gmelin, 1790: 2750. - Olivier, 1792: 682 (schuch [!]). - Fabricius, 1793: 260. - Jurine, 1807: 168. - Zimsen, 1964: 403 (list).

Polistes schach; Fabricius, 1804: 270. - de Saussure, 1853: 50 (syn.: P. orientalis Lepeletier). - Froggatt, 1892: 233 (cat.). - Dalla Torre, 1894: 134 (cat.); 1904: 71 (cat.). - Cameron, 1900a: 410 (compared to P. rothneyi n. sp.). - Meade-Waldo, 1911: 103 (key). - Currie, 1928: 100–102 (prey: Heliothis obsoleta). - Winburn & Painter, 1932: 8 (list). - Yoshikawa, 1962: 36 (syns.: P. orientalis Lepeletier, P. gyrostoma de Saussure, P. confusus Smith; list). - van der Vecht, 1968a: 97 (in subgenus Megapolistes). - Richards, 1978: 8 (key), 18 (in subgenus Megapolistes; redescription; nest; Qld.; W. A.). - Cardale, 1985: 210 (in subgenus Megapolistes; cat.). - Borsato, 1994 [1993]: 250 (N. T.; Qld.). - Forster, 1994: 215 (pollination of Gomphocarpus physocarpus). - Carpenter, 1996a: 53 (in subgenus Megapolistes); 1996b: 7 (in subgenus Gyrostoma; list). - Kojima, 1998: 16, 212, Figs 47–58 (larva). - Brown, 2009: 30 (in subgenus Gyrostoma; N. T.: North Coast). - Piekarski et al., 2018: Fig. 2 (phylogenetic relationships).

Distribution: NE coastal, Murray-Darling basin, N coastal; Qld., N. S. W., W. A., N. T.