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Polistes (Gyrostoma) rothneyi subsp. carletoni van der Vecht 1968

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Polistes (Gyrostoma) rothneyi carletoni van der Vecht, 1968

Material Examined: PAKISTAN: Federal Capital area: Islamabad, 20.viii.08, Leg. A. Rafi. ♀; Punjab: Murree: 14.vi.2015, Leg. M. Qasim, ♀; Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa: Chitral: Drosh, 21.vi.08, Leg. A. Zia, ♀.

Remarks: Earlier Chaudhry et al. (1966) reported this species from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa: Hazara. Das & Gupta (1984; 1989) reported this species from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa: Chitral; Punjab: Jhelum velley, Murree hills. Dvořák (2007) reported this species from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: Chitral: Bamboret valley, Brun. Mahmood et al. (2012) recorded it from Islamabad; Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa: Dir, Miadam, Mansehra, Jaba, Gari Habibullah, Abbottabad, Mardan, Peshawar; Gilgit-Baltistan: Daimer, Bagrot, Sassi and Gech. Siddiqui et al. (2015) recorded it from Punjab: Attock and Rawalpindi. Shah (2015) reported it from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa: Mansehra, Balakot, Baffa, Abbottabad, Havelian and Ayubia. Faiz et al. (2016) reported this species from Gilgit-Baltistan: Gilgit, Ghizer and Astore.

Distribution: India; Nepal; Pakistan (Chaudhry et al. 1966; Das & Gupta 1989; Carpenter 1996; Dvořák 2007; Faiz et al. 2016).

Notes

Published as part of Rafi, Muhammad Ather, Carpenter Muhammad Qasim, James M., Shehzad, Anjum, Zia, Ahmed, Khan, Muhammad Rafique, Mastoi, Muhammad Ishaque, Naz, Falak, Ilyas, Muhammad, Shah, Mazafar & Bhatti, Abdul Rauf, 2017, The vespid fauna of Pakistan, pp. 1-28 in Zootaxa 4362 (1) on page 20, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4362.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1076112

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References

  • Chaudhry, G. U., Chaudhry, M. I. & Khan, S. M. (1966) Survey of Insect fauna of forests of Pakistan. Pakistan Forest Institute Peshawer, 167 pp.
  • Das, B. P. & Gupta, V. K. (1984 [" 1983 "]) A catalogue of the families Stenogastridae and Vespidae from the Indian subregion (Hymenoptera: Vespoidea), Oriental Insects, 17 (1), 395 - 464. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00305316.1983.10433698
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  • Faiz, A., Rafi, M. A., Zia, A., Shah, A., Shah, S. W., Khan, R. U & Saeed, M. (2016) Wasp fauna of (Eumeninae: Vespinae and Polistinae) in forests of Gilgit-Baltistan (Pakistan). Pure and Applied Biology, 5 (4), (accepted). http: // dx. doi. org / 10.19045 / bspab. 2016.50073.
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