Check List 17(1): 247-252, doi: 10.15560/17.1.247
Polistes associus (Kohl, 1898) recorded from Slovakia after 66 years (Hymenoptera, Vespidae)
Katarína Goffová‡, Dáša Matisková‡, Dávid Selnekovič§, Adrián Purkart‡, Vladimír Smetana|‡ Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Zoology, Bratislava, Slovakia§ Comenius University in Bratislava Faculty of Natural Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia| Tekov Museum, Levice, Slovakia
Corresponding author: Katarína Goffová ( katarina.goffova@uniba.sk ) Academic editor: Filippo Di Giovanni © Katarína Goffová, Dáša Matisková, Dávid Selnekovič, Adrián Purkart, Vladimír Smetana. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Goffová K, Matisková D, Selnekovič D, Purkart A, Smetana V (2021) Polistes associus (Kohl, 1898) recorded from Slovakia after 66 years (Hymenoptera, Vespidae). Check List 17(1): 247-252. https://doi.org/10.15560/17.1.247 |  |
Abstract
We present the second record of Polistes associus (Kohl, 1898) (Hymenoptera, Vespidae) from Slovakia after 66 years and discuss the distribution of this species in Europe. Morphological features of the species are compared with those of other morphologically similar congeners occurring in Central Europe, Polistes bischoffi Weyrauch, 1937 and Polistes nimpha (Christ, 1791), and the differential diagnoses are supplemented with figures.
Keywords
Distributional range, Europe, faunistics, identification, paper wasps, Polistinae, Project LIFE