Ropalidia stigma, Le Guillou

Carpenter, James M. & Brown, Graham R., 2022, Catalogue of the Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), Zootaxa 5214 (4), pp. 451-495 : 457-458

stigma bernardii Le Guillou

Polistes bernardii Le Guillou, 1841a: 321 , female - “ Australie septentrionale” (? Paris); 1841b: 325. - de Saussure, 1853: 70. - Roth, 1885: 326 (ethology; Qld.). - Froggatt, 1892: 232 (cat.). - Dalla Torre, 1894: 123 (cat.); 1904: 69 (cat.). - Meade-Waldo, 1911: 104 (key). - Cheesman, 1928: 181 (Tahiti). - Yoshikawa, 1962: 21 (list). - Giordani Soika, 1975: 22 (redescription; Qld.; N. T.). - Wenzel, 1998: 25 (nest examined).

Polistes variabilis ; Meade-Waldo, 1912a: 452 (New Guinea; Qld., N. T.) [misidentification]. - Kojima & Carpenter, 1997b: 118 (Meade-Waldo’s specimens examined; misidentified).

Polistes richardsi Giordani Soika, 1975: 23 , female, male - “ N. Territory: Roper Riv.” (holotype female Adelaide); also from Darwin; and Qld. - Petersen, 1987: 227 (richtersi [!]; syn. of P. bernardii Le Guillou ). - Borsato & Ratti, 1999: 101 (list).

Polistes bernardii bernardii ; Richards, 1978: 9 (key), 27 (in subgenus Polistella ; N. T.). - Cardale, 1985: 211 (in subgenus Polistella ; cat.).

Polistes bernardii duplicinctus Richards, 1978: 9 (key), 28, female, male (in subgenus Polistella ) – “ Western Australia, Millstream, 117°04’E., 21°35’S ” (holotype female Canberra); also from five other localities. - Cardale, 1985: 211 (in subgenus Polistella ; cat.). - Petersen, 1987: 234 (? syn. of P. stigma bernardii Le Guillou ).

Polistes bernardii richardsi ; Richards, 1978: 9 (key), 29 (in subgenus Polistella ; nest; N. T., Qld.). - Cardale, 1985: 211 (in subgenus Polistella ; cat.). - Itô, 1986b: 309 (ethology). - Kojima, 1987a: 141, Figs 1–13 (larva). - Borsato, 1994 [1993]: 250 (Qld.).

Polistes bernardii insulae Richards, 1978: 9 (key), 30, female, male (in subgenus Polistella ) - “Queensland, Dauan I.” (holotype female Canberra); also from four other localities; and New Guinea. - Cardale, 1985: 211 (in subgenus Polistella ; cat.). - Petersen, 1987: 234 (? syn. of P. stigma bernardii Le Guillou ).

Polistes stigma bernardii ; Petersen, 1987: 227. - Carpenter, 1996a: 53 (stigmus; in subgenus Megapolistes ); 1996b: 15 (in subgenus Polistella ; list). - Pickett & Wenzel, 2004: Figs 2–4 (phylogenetic relationships). - Pickett et al., 2006:, Figs 3–5 (phylogenetic relationships). - Brown, 2009: 30 (in subgenus Polistella ; North Coast, Northern Gulf). - Nugroho et al., 2012 [2011]: 143 (list). - Santos et al., 2015: Figs 1–8, 9 (phylogenetic relationships). - Nguyen et al., 2018: Figs 1–3 (phylogenetic relationships).

Distribution: N Gulf, N coastal, N. T., NE coastal; Qld.; also New Guinea; introduced into Tahiti.