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<emphasis id="B92AEAA3FFBCFFF06984D3175E9AFAEC" bold="true" box="[151,244,1300,1326]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="586">Polistes</emphasis>
(
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)
<emphasis id="B92AEAA3FFBCFFF06895D3175C6CFAEC" bold="true" box="[390,514,1300,1326]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="586">khasianus</emphasis>
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, 1900
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(
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)
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<emphasis id="B92AEAA3FFBCFFF06984D37D5F38FA56" box="[151,342,1406,1428]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="586">Polistes khasianus</emphasis>
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,
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—[
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: Meghalaya] “Khasia Hills” [
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in Oxford University Museum, Oxford].
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<emphasis id="B92AEAA3FFBCFFF06984D3DC5F08FA35" box="[151,358,1503,1527]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="586">Polistes khasianus</emphasis>
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was recorded from middle and northwestern parts of
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(Nguyen &amp; Kojima 2013; Nguyen &amp; Pham 2011), but careful examination of the description of
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<emphasis id="B92AEAA3FFBCFFF06A55D0075DBCF9DE" box="[838,978,1540,1564]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="586">P. khasianus</emphasis>
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by Das &amp; Gupta (1989) and comparison with the description of
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<emphasis id="B92AEAA3FFBCFFF068BAD02B5C4CF9FD" box="[425,546,1575,1599]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="586">P. pallidus</emphasis>
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by Gusenleitner (2011) showed that it is not
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<emphasis id="B92AEAA3FFBCFFF06D2FD02B5AA2F9FD" box="[1084,1228,1575,1599]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="586">P. khasianus</emphasis>
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but
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<emphasis id="B92AEAA3FFBCFFF06C17D02B5B10F9FD" box="[1284,1406,1575,1599]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="586">P. pallidus</emphasis>
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, a species close to
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<emphasis id="B92AEAA3FFBCFFF0684ED04F5F81F9A6" box="[349,495,1612,1636]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="586">P. khasianus</emphasis>
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with the metasomal tergum 1 sharply angled basally and fore wing without a subapical fuscous cloud. In this study, two specimens of
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<emphasis id="B92AEAA3FFBCFFF06A39D0735DD6F945" box="[810,952,1647,1671]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="586">P. khasianus</emphasis>
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were collected in the northeastern part of
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together with nests as detailed below. The species has the clypeus dark brown (Das &amp; Gupta 1989) but the specimens from
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have the clypeus yellow. The color pattern of Vietnamese specimens otherwise fits with that described by Das and Gupta (1989).
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.
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: Lao Cai: Hoang Lien NP, Sa Pa,
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1
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,
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,
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, TV Tran; 1
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, Tram Ton,
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, Nest#VN-HL-2015-P-01,
<date id="FFE01071FFBCFFF06B8ED1275D60F8FE" box="[669,782,1828,1852]" pageId="3" pageNumber="586" value="2015-05-14">14.v.2015</date>
, TV Hoang; 1
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, Tram Ton,
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, Nest#VN-HL-2015- P-02,
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, TV Hoang.
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<emphasis id="B92AEAA3FFBCFFF069D4D16F5F00F846" box="[199,366,1900,1924]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="586">Male genitalia</emphasis>
. Generally similar to that of
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<emphasis id="B92AEAA3FFBCFFF06BACD16F5D06F846" box="[703,872,1900,1924]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="586">P. clandestinus</emphasis>
(Nguyen
<emphasis id="B92AEAA3FFBCFFF06ACED16F5A76F846" box="[989,1048,1900,1924]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="586">et al.</emphasis>
, 2011)
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. Digitus in inner aspect of paramere (
<figureCitation id="13652A34FFBCFFF0681CD18C5F31F86A" box="[271,351,1935,1960]" captionStart="FIGURES 7 13" captionStartId="4.[151,263,1933,1954]" captionTargetBox="[207,1370,193,1887]" captionTargetId="figure@4.[207,1372,193,1894]" captionTargetPageId="4" captionText="FIGURES 7 13. Polistes khasianus. 7. Head, frontal view. 8. Habitus. 9. Head, frontal view. 10 12. Genitalia. Scale 1 mm. 10. Inner aspect of paramere with digitus and volsella. 11, 12. Aedeagus (11. Ventral and 12. Lateral view). 13. Nest. 7, 8. ♀. 9 12. ♂." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/265607/files/figure.png" pageId="3" pageNumber="586">Fig. 10</figureCitation>
) 3 × as long as wide (measured at widest part), distinctly swollen near base, gradually narrowed apically to mid-length, then slightly swollen towards the rounded apex. Aedeagus (
<figureCitation id="13652A34FFBCFFF06D26D1B75ADAF80F" box="[1077,1204,1972,1997]" captionStart="FIGURES 7 13" captionStartId="4.[151,263,1933,1954]" captionTargetBox="[207,1370,193,1887]" captionTargetId="figure@4.[207,1372,193,1894]" captionTargetPageId="4" captionText="FIGURES 7 13. Polistes khasianus. 7. Head, frontal view. 8. Habitus. 9. Head, frontal view. 10 12. Genitalia. Scale 1 mm. 10. Inner aspect of paramere with digitus and volsella. 11, 12. Aedeagus (11. Ventral and 12. Lateral view). 13. Nest. 7, 8. ♀. 9 12. ♂." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/265607/files/figure.png" pageId="3" pageNumber="586">Figs 11, 12</figureCitation>
), penial valves 1.3 × longer than basal apodeme, in ventral view narrowest near mid-length, nearly straight from mid-length then strongly swollen and distinctly produced laterally near proximal margins, in lateral view slightly thickened in proximal one fourth and with dorsal margin strongly sinuate, with proximoventral corner produced into acute angle (
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); ventral margins of penial valves finely serrated along entire length.
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<emphasis id="B92AEAA3FFBBFFF76984D18E5F28F860" bold="true" box="[151,326,1933,1954]" pageId="4" pageNumber="587">FIGURES 713.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B92AEAA3FFBBFFF7685FD18E5C69F861" box="[332,519,1933,1955]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="587">Polistes khasianus</emphasis>
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. 7. Head, frontal view. 8. Habitus. 9. Head, frontal view. 10
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12. Genitalia. Scale 1mm. 10. Inner aspect of paramere with digitus and volsella. 11, 12. Aedeagus (11. Ventral and 12. Lateral view). 13. Nest. 7, 8.
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.9
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12.
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.
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<emphasis id="B92AEAA3FFBAFFF669D4D7065E92FEDE" bold="true" box="[199,252,261,284]" pageId="5" pageNumber="588">Nest</emphasis>
. The nest of
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<emphasis id="B92AEAA3FFBAFFF6689DD7075C30FEDE" box="[398,606,260,284]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="588">Polistes khasianus</emphasis>
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is described here for the first time.
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The two early stage nests, Nest#VN-HL-2015-P-01 (
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) and Nest#VN-HL-2015-P-02 were collected together with only 1
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on each nest. The two nests were attached to two long and not very broad leaves, at
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above the ground. Nest Nest#VN-HL-2015-P-01 has 31 cells, with
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and was without pupa; and nest Nest#VN-HL-2015-P-02 has 42 cells, with
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,
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and was without pupa. The structural and morphological characters are as follows: comb tough, pliable “paper”-like in texture, more or less uniformly gray in the cell walls, subcircular (
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x
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mm for Nest Nest#VN-HL-2015-P-01 and
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mm for Nest#VN-HL-2015-P-02) in view from the side of the cell opening, expanded concentrically from the single petiole, with surface corresponding to the cell bottom slightly concave. The nests have petiole single, terminal, attached to the border between bottoms of the first three cells,
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long and 0.9 x 1.0 mm thick at the midlength in the nest Nest#VN-HL-2015-P-01, and
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long and 0.8 x
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thick at the mid-length in the nest Nest#VN-HL-2015-P-02, with thin central core of plant fibers, enlarged strictly with adult oral secretion, dark brown and lustrous, secretion coat expanded on comb back around the petiole and on substrate in
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mm thin film. Cells are generally arranged in regular rows, pentagonal at open end; for the nest Nest#VN-HL-2015-P-
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each cell expanded towards open end, the largest cell was 5.0 mm, the other cells were
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(range
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(range
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in largest cells, cell wall
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thick; for the nest Nest#VN-HL-2015-P-02 each cell expanded towards open end
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(range
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thick.
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<emphasis id="B92AEAA3FFBAFFF669D4D58F5F37FC67" bold="true" box="[199,345,908,933]" pageId="5" pageNumber="588">Distribution</emphasis>
. This species was recorded from northern
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(Haryana, Meghalaya, West Bengal) and northeastern
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(this study). Like
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and
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, the species has a disjunct distribution, probably due to lack of intensive field work.
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