Catalogue of the Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) Author Carpenter, James M. Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79 th Street, New York, NY 10024, U. S. A. Author Brown, Graham R. 0000-0002-4101-3823 Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, GPO Box 4646, Darwin, NT 0801, Australia. & Visiting Scientist, CSIRO Land and Water, Private Mail Bag 44, Winnellie, NT 0822, Australia. & University Fellow, Research Institute for Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, NT 0909, Australia. thynnini @ outlook. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4101 - 3823 thynnini@outlook.com text Zootaxa 2022 2022-12-05 5214 4 451 495 journal article 202625 10.11646/zootaxa.5214.4.1 05dc98be-c3f9-4039-a21d-b285d6059a8c 1175-5326 7397617 80EE5BF7-A183-4089-950E-25DBD65EFCFC 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.