Polistes (Polistes) associus Kohl, 1898

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 : 969

Polistes (Polistes) associus Kohl, 1898 *

Material examined

IRAQ: Kurdistan, Duhok, SW of Ashewa , 1100 m, 37.013611°N 43.284444°E, 1–4 June 2024, 2 ♀ ( MSVI) .

Distribution

Spain, France (including Corsica), Italy (including Sicily), Malta, Switzerland, Austria, Slovakia, Croatia, Slovenia, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Greece, Turkey, Israel, Azerbaijan, Russia, Iraq *, Iran, Pakistan, India, Tajikistan, China ( Schmid-Egger et al. 2017).