Polistes (Polistes) indicus Stolfa, 1934

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 : 970-971

Polistes (Polistes) indicus Stolfa, 1934

Literature records

Kumar and Lambert (2010)

Remarks

We have not been able to locate in the literature the first record for Iraq of this species, which appears to be reported as present in Iraq for the first time by Kumar and Lambert (2010), without providing information on the origin of this record. We have not examined any Iraqi specimen of this species that could confirm the record; however, given the known distribution its presence in Iraq is highly probable and is therefore maintained in the list.

Distribution

United Arab Emirates, Oman, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India ( Carpenter and Gadallah 2020).