Polistes (Polistes) nimpha (Christ, 1791)

Selis, Marco, Ismael, Halgurd R., Hamad, Mudhafar I., Baiocchi, Daniele & Cilia, Giovanni, 2025, A first update to the vespid fauna of Iraq (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), with description of a new species, Journal of Natural History 59 (13 - 16), pp. 941-981 : 971

Polistes (Polistes) nimpha (Christ, 1791)

Literature records

Derwesh (1965), mentioning ‘Zoologische Sumlong d. Bayer. Staates’; Gusenleitner (1976); Al-Ali (1977).

Material examined

IRAQ: Kurdistan, Duhok, SW of Ashewa, 1100 m, 37.013611°N 43.284444°E, 1–4 June 2024, 1 ♀ ( MSVI); Kurdistan, Duhok, 5 km E of Ashewa, Mt . Gara , 1750–1950 m, 37.0158°N 43.3305°E, 30 May-12 June 2024, 1 ♂ ( MSVI) .

Distribution

Sweden, Germany, Belgium, France, Spain, Portugal (including Madeira), Switzerland, Italy (including Sardinia and Sicily), Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Latvia, Russia, Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Morocco, Israel, Turkey, Iraq, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Pakistan, India, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, China ( Schmid-Egger et al. 2017).