Polistes comanchus

Polistes comanchus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Vespidae
Subfamily:	Polistinae
Genus:	Polistes
Species:	P. comanchus
Binomial name
	Polistes comanchus; Saussure, 1857
Synonyms[1]
	Polistes commanchus Richards, 1978, lapsus; Polistes navajoe Cresson, 1868; Polistes novajoe Dalla Torre, 1894, lapsus; Polistes novajae Dalla Torre, 1894, lapsus; Polistes canadensis navajoe (Cresson, 1868)[2];

Polistes comanchus is a species of paper wasp from northwestern Mexico to the south central United States.[1]

Taxonomy

It was described in 1857 by Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure using a collection from Nuevo México[3] - this does not correspond to the modern state of New Mexico, but at the time was a formerly Mexican territory which had recently been conquered and annexed by the USA, and included everything in between modern Nevada to east Texas. He had travelled to this region in 1856.

In 1978 Owain Richards classified P. comanchus in a subgenus he named Aphanilopterus after an old synonym of P. lanio by Fernand Anatole Meunier, he further placed it in a "species group 1".[1]

Subspecies

Two subspecies are accepted:[1][4]

Polistes comanchus ssp. comanchus - Found in southwestern Texas, Coahuila, Durango,[1][4] New Mexico?[3]
Polistes comanchus ssp. navajoe (Cresson, 1868) - Found in Arizona,[1][4] California,[1] New Mexico,[1] western Texas, Sonora, Chihuahua, Durango, Sinaloa.[1][4] This subspecies makes its nests in cavities reached via a very small opening.[4]

Conservation

The IUCN has not evaluated this species' conservation status.[5]

References

Carpenter, James M. (31 December 1996). "Distributional Checklist of Species of the Genus Polistes (Hymenoptera: Vespidae; Polistinae, Polistini" (PDF). American Museum Novitates. 3188: 1–39. Retrieved 15 January 2020.
Bohart, R. M.; Bechtel, R. C. (1 March 1957). "The Social Wasps of California (Vespinae, Polistinae, Polibiinae)" (PDF). Bulletin of the California Insect Survey. 4 (3): 77–78, 91–94. Retrieved 16 January 2020.
de Saussure, Henri Louis Frédéric (1857). "Note sur les Polistes Américains (Séance du 25 Mars 1857)". Annales de la Société entomologique de France. 3 (in French). 5 (1): 314. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
Krombein, Karl Vorse (1979). "Vespoidea". In Krombein, Karl V.; Hurd, Paul D. Jr.; Smith, David R.; Burks, B. D. (eds.). Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. 2. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. p. 1513. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.5074.
"Polistes comanchus". Species. GBIF. Retrieved 22 January 2020.

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[Carpenter1996-1] Carpenter, James M. (31 December 1996). "Distributional Checklist of Species of the Genus Polistes (Hymenoptera: Vespidae; Polistinae, Polistini" (PDF). American Museum Novitates. 3188: 1–39. Retrieved 15 January 2020.

[Bohart1957-2] Bohart, R. M.; Bechtel, R. C. (1 March 1957). "The Social Wasps of California (Vespinae, Polistinae, Polibiinae)" (PDF). Bulletin of the California Insect Survey. 4 (3): 77–78, 91–94. Retrieved 16 January 2020.

[Saussure1857-3] Saussure, Henri Louis Frédéric (1857). "Note sur les Polistes Américains (Séance du 25 Mars 1857)". Annales de la Société entomologique de France. 3 (in French). 5 (1): 314. Retrieved 14 January 2020.

[Krombein1979-4] Krombein, Karl Vorse (1979). "Vespoidea". In Krombein, Karl V.; Hurd, Paul D. Jr.; Smith, David R.; Burks, B. D. (eds.). Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. 2. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. p. 1513. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.5074.

[GBIF-5] "Polistes comanchus". Species. GBIF. Retrieved 22 January 2020.