Polistes (Polistella) dawnae Dover & Rao, 1922

Nguyen, Lien Thi Phuong & Kojima, Jun-ichi, 2014, Distribution and nests of paper wasps of Polistes (Polistella) in northeastern Vietnam, with description of a new species (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Polistinae), ZooKeys 368, pp. 45-63 : 47

Polistes (Polistella) dawnae Dover & Rao, 1922

Polistes dawnae Dover & Rao, 1922: 248, female, Dawna Hills, Burma [Myanmar], [holotype in the Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta].

Material examined.

Northeastern provinces: Bac Kan: 2 females, Kim Hy NP, Na Ri, 22°14'N, 106°05'E, alt. ca 300 m, 3.VIII.2012, L.T.P. Nguyen et al. Other province: Son La: 1 female, Nong Truong, Moc Chau, 20°50'N, 104°40.283'E, alt. ca 950 m, 2.VII.2013, D.D. Nguyen.

Remarks on distribution.

Polistes dawnae , one of the two species characterized by a basally strongly swollen second metasomal sternum and recorded in northeastern Vietnam (the other is Polistes mandarinus ), was originally described from Dawna Hills [16°50'N, 98°15'E], northern Myanmar, and has been recently recorded in northeastern part of Laos ( Gusenleitner 2013) and northern Vietnam, such as in the provinces of Lai Chau, Dien Bien, Hoa Binh ( Nguyen et al. 2011), Bac Kan and Son La (present study). This species may be restricted in its distribution to the areas on the eastern slope of the Himalaya.