Document Type

Article

Journal/Book Title/Conference

The Pan-Pacific Entomologist

Volume

7

Issue

2

Publication Date

10-1-1930

First Page

91

Last Page

94

Abstract

In 1904 (Proc. U.S. N. Mus., XXVIII, p. 133), Ashmead proposed the new generic term, Polistella, for Polistes manillensis H. de Saussure, of the Philippines, giving the following characters to separate it from Polistes Latreille: "Metathorax smooth, not transversely striate; abdomen fusiform, subpetiolate; second cubital cell very small and narrow, along the cubitus hardly one-third the length of the third, receiving both recurrent nervures close together; eyes extending to base of mandibles." I have long been at a loss to place this genus, since some of its characters are found in Polistes, while others (such as the peculiar venation) could hardly be expected in the Polistinae. Ashmead's figure of his "Polistella manillensis" (Pl. I, Fig. 1) looks more like one of the Polybiinae, though it is quite different from any Oriental member of that subfamily known to me. In the "Revision of the Vespidae of the Belgian Congo" (1918, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXXIX, p. 255), I was unable to reach any definite conclusion regarding the status of Polistella.

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