taxonID	type	description	language	source
036C87E0B12EFF8DD3CF559C6133C38B.taxon	type_taxon	Type species: “ Polistes gallica, Fab. ” [= Vespa gallica Linnaeus, 1767], by subsequent designation of Latreille, 1810: 438.	en	Carpenter, James M., Brown, Graham R. (2022): Catalogue of the Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Zootaxa 5214 (4): 451-495, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5214.4.1
036C87E0B12DFF8ED3CF51F765B0C6FC.taxon	type_taxon	Type species: Cyclostoma gigas Kirby, 1826, by monotypy.	en	Carpenter, James M., Brown, Graham R. (2022): Catalogue of the Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Zootaxa 5214 (4): 451-495, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5214.4.1
036C87E0B12DFF8ED3CF51F765B0C6FC.taxon	distribution	This subgenus is also found in the Oriental Region and Pacific islands, with a few species in Palaearctic Asia.	en	Carpenter, James M., Brown, Graham R. (2022): Catalogue of the Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Zootaxa 5214 (4): 451-495, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5214.4.1
036C87E0B12DFF8ED3CF53B76791C79C.taxon	distribution	Distribution: Christmas I., Cocos (Keeling) I.	en	Carpenter, James M., Brown, Graham R. (2022): Catalogue of the Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Zootaxa 5214 (4): 451-495, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5214.4.1
036C87E0B12DFF8ED3CF529761E8C0BC.taxon	distribution	Distribution: SE coastal, Murray-Darling basin; Qld., N. S. W., A. C. T., Vic., S. A.	en	Carpenter, James M., Brown, Graham R. (2022): Catalogue of the Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Zootaxa 5214 (4): 451-495, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5214.4.1
036C87E0B12DFF8ED3CF5477672AC25C.taxon	distribution	Distribution: NE coastal; Qld.	en	Carpenter, James M., Brown, Graham R. (2022): Catalogue of the Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Zootaxa 5214 (4): 451-495, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5214.4.1
036C87E0B12DFF8FD3CF5757600FC27B.taxon	distribution	Distribution: introduced into Brisbane (1946, 1953), possibly temporarily established; introduced into New Zealand (1921, 1978) but not established; native distribution is Asia and Indo-Pacific islands.	en	Carpenter, James M., Brown, Graham R. (2022): Catalogue of the Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Zootaxa 5214 (4): 451-495, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5214.4.1
036C87E0B12CFF88D3CF573461A2C517.taxon	distribution	Distribution: NE coastal, Murray-Darling basin, N coastal; Qld., N. S. W., W. A., N. T.	en	Carpenter, James M., Brown, Graham R. (2022): Catalogue of the Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Zootaxa 5214 (4): 451-495, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5214.4.1
036C87E0B12BFF88D3CF550C6687C1CB.taxon	type_taxon	Type species: Polistes manillensis de Saussure, 1853, by original designation. [Misidentification of Protopolybia sedula (de Saussure) = P. exigua (de Saussure).]	en	Carpenter, James M., Brown, Graham R. (2022): Catalogue of the Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Zootaxa 5214 (4): 451-495, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5214.4.1
036C87E0B12BFF88D3CF550C6687C1CB.taxon	distribution	This subgenus is also found in the Oriental and Ethiopian Regions.	en	Carpenter, James M., Brown, Graham R. (2022): Catalogue of the Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Zootaxa 5214 (4): 451-495, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5214.4.1
036C87E0B12BFF88D3CF54A46735C2CF.taxon	distribution	Distribution: type locality only.	en	Carpenter, James M., Brown, Graham R. (2022): Catalogue of the Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Zootaxa 5214 (4): 451-495, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5214.4.1
036C87E0B12BFF88D3CF50006611C047.taxon	distribution	Distribution: NE coastal, SE coastal; Qld., N. S. W., Vic.	en	Carpenter, James M., Brown, Graham R. (2022): Catalogue of the Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Zootaxa 5214 (4): 451-495, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5214.4.1
036C87E0B12BFF89D3CF57A86777C103.taxon	distribution	Distribution: SE coastal, Murray-Darling basin; Qld., N. S. W., A. C. T., Vic., S. A.; introduced into New Zealand (1880 s).	en	Carpenter, James M., Brown, Graham R. (2022): Catalogue of the Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Zootaxa 5214 (4): 451-495, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5214.4.1
036C87E0B12AFF8AD3CF54EC6187C637.taxon	distribution	Distribution: NE coastal, SE coastal, Murray-Darling basin, SW coastal; Qld., N. S. W., W. A., N. T.; introduced into the Perth area in about 1950, also introduced into Moorea; Tahiti.	en	Carpenter, James M., Brown, Graham R. (2022): Catalogue of the Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Zootaxa 5214 (4): 451-495, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5214.4.1
036C87E0B129FF8AD3CF53E0667EC70B.taxon	distribution	Distribution: N coastal, W. A.; type locality only.	en	Carpenter, James M., Brown, Graham R. (2022): Catalogue of the Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Zootaxa 5214 (4): 451-495, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5214.4.1
036C87E0B129FF8AD3CF52E467C6C063.taxon	distribution	Distribution: NE coastal, N Gulf; Qld.	en	Carpenter, James M., Brown, Graham R. (2022): Catalogue of the Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Zootaxa 5214 (4): 451-495, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5214.4.1
036C87E0B129FF8AD3CF550C675FC103.taxon	distribution	Distribution: N coastal; N. T.	en	Carpenter, James M., Brown, Graham R. (2022): Catalogue of the Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Zootaxa 5214 (4): 451-495, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5214.4.1
036C87E0B129FF8BD3CF54EC605AC6D3.taxon	distribution	Distribution: N Gulf, N coastal, N. T., NE coastal; Qld.; also New Guinea; introduced into Tahiti.	en	Carpenter, James M., Brown, Graham R. (2022): Catalogue of the Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Zootaxa 5214 (4): 451-495, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5214.4.1
036C87E0B128FF8BD3CF561F6414C3A0.taxon	description	This subgenus is found in the Oriental, Palaearctic and Ethiopian Regions, and introduced into Australia and North and South America.	en	Carpenter, James M., Brown, Graham R. (2022): Catalogue of the Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Zootaxa 5214 (4): 451-495, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5214.4.1
036C87E0B128FF8BD3CF53DC6798C0BF.taxon	distribution	Distribution: NE coastal, N Gulf, N coastal, SE coastal, Murray-Darling basin; Qld., W. A., N. T., N. S. W., Vic.; introduced into New Caledonia.	en	Carpenter, James M., Brown, Graham R. (2022): Catalogue of the Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Zootaxa 5214 (4): 451-495, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5214.4.1
036C87E0B128FF8BD3CF5478672AC37F.taxon	distribution	Distribution: NE coastal; Qld.	en	Carpenter, James M., Brown, Graham R. (2022): Catalogue of the Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Zootaxa 5214 (4): 451-495, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5214.4.1
036C87E0B127FF84D3CF51F86148C70B.taxon	distribution	Distribution: SE; N. S. W., A. C. T., Vic.; introduced into the Sydney area, established by 2008; native to the Palaearctic Region and introduced into New Zealand (1979).	en	Carpenter, James M., Brown, Graham R. (2022): Catalogue of the Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Zootaxa 5214 (4): 451-495, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5214.4.1
036C87E0B127FF85D3CF52E4601CC5FB.taxon	distribution	Distribution: introduced into the Perth area, established by 1977; native to the Palaearctic Region and adventive in U. S. A.; Canada; Chile; Argentina; South Africa; New Zealand; St. Helena; Benin.	en	Carpenter, James M., Brown, Graham R. (2022): Catalogue of the Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Zootaxa 5214 (4): 451-495, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5214.4.1
036C87E0B126FF85D3CF532866DCC38B.taxon	type_taxon	Type species: Ropalidia maculiventris Guérin-Méneville, 1831, by monotypy.	en	Carpenter, James M., Brown, Graham R. (2022): Catalogue of the Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Zootaxa 5214 (4): 451-495, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5214.4.1
036C87E0B126FF85D3CF532866DCC38B.taxon	distribution	This genus is also found in the Oriental and Ethiopian Regions.	en	Carpenter, James M., Brown, Graham R. (2022): Catalogue of the Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Zootaxa 5214 (4): 451-495, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5214.4.1
036C87E0B125FF86D3CF51F867E8C5FB.taxon	distribution	Distribution: N coastal; N. T., W. A.	en	Carpenter, James M., Brown, Graham R. (2022): Catalogue of the Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Zootaxa 5214 (4): 451-495, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5214.4.1
036C87E0B125FF86D3CF50B467C6C6FF.taxon	distribution	Distribution: NE coastal, N Gulf; Qld.	en	Carpenter, James M., Brown, Graham R. (2022): Catalogue of the Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Zootaxa 5214 (4): 451-495, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5214.4.1
036C87E0B125FF86D3CF53B867C6C047.taxon	distribution	Distribution: NE coastal, N Gulf; Qld.	en	Carpenter, James M., Brown, Graham R. (2022): Catalogue of the Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Zootaxa 5214 (4): 451-495, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5214.4.1
036C87E0B125FF86D3CF555067C6C1CB.taxon	distribution	Distribution: NE coastal, N Gulf; Qld.	en	Carpenter, James M., Brown, Graham R. (2022): Catalogue of the Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Zootaxa 5214 (4): 451-495, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5214.4.1
036C87E0B125FF86D3CF54A46619C353.taxon	distribution	Distribution: NE coastal, N Gulf; Qld.; also New Guinea.	en	Carpenter, James M., Brown, Graham R. (2022): Catalogue of the Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Zootaxa 5214 (4): 451-495, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5214.4.1
036C87E0B125FF87D3CF565C6655C483.taxon	distribution	Distribution: NE coastal, SE coastal; Qld., N. S. W.	en	Carpenter, James M., Brown, Graham R. (2022): Catalogue of the Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Zootaxa 5214 (4): 451-495, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5214.4.1
036C87E0B124FF87D3CF522C6644C223.taxon	distribution	Distribution: N Gulf, N coastal; W. A., N. T., Qld.	en	Carpenter, James M., Brown, Graham R. (2022): Catalogue of the Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Zootaxa 5214 (4): 451-495, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5214.4.1
036C87E0B124FF87D3CF506C6639C743.taxon	distribution	Distribution: NE coastal, N Gulf; Qld.; also Indonesia.	en	Carpenter, James M., Brown, Graham R. (2022): Catalogue of the Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Zootaxa 5214 (4): 451-495, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5214.4.1
036C87E0B124FF80D3CF57A8614EC38B.taxon	distribution	Distribution: NE coastal, Murray-Darling basin; N. T., Qld., N. S. W.; also New Guinea; New Ireland; Solomon Is.; Fiji; Sulawesi; Ceram; Bacan; Ambon; Philippines.	en	Carpenter, James M., Brown, Graham R. (2022): Catalogue of the Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Zootaxa 5214 (4): 451-495, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5214.4.1
036C87E0B122FF81D3CF51F86185C64F.taxon	distribution	Distribution: NE coastal, N Gulf; Qld.; one N. S. W. record possibly a stray; New Guinea.	en	Carpenter, James M., Brown, Graham R. (2022): Catalogue of the Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Zootaxa 5214 (4): 451-495, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5214.4.1
036C87E0B122FF81D3CF532E672AC765.taxon	distribution	Distribution: NE coastal; Qld.	en	Carpenter, James M., Brown, Graham R. (2022): Catalogue of the Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Zootaxa 5214 (4): 451-495, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5214.4.1
036C87E0B122FF81D3CF523367C6C024.taxon	distribution	Distribution: NE coastal, N Gulf; Qld.	en	Carpenter, James M., Brown, Graham R. (2022): Catalogue of the Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Zootaxa 5214 (4): 451-495, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5214.4.1
036C87E0B122FF9CD3CF55CE6140C54B.taxon	distribution	Distribution: NE coastal, N Gulf; Qld.; also widespread in Indo-Malaya.	en	Carpenter, James M., Brown, Graham R. (2022): Catalogue of the Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Zootaxa 5214 (4): 451-495, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5214.4.1
036C87E0B13FFF9CD3CF502464AAC69B.taxon	distribution	Distr.: N. T., W. A.	en	Carpenter, James M., Brown, Graham R. (2022): Catalogue of the Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Zootaxa 5214 (4): 451-495, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5214.4.1
036C87E0B13FFF9CD3CF5394669EC047.taxon	distribution	Distribution: NE coastal, N Gulf; Qld.; possibly also in New Guinea.	en	Carpenter, James M., Brown, Graham R. (2022): Catalogue of the Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Zootaxa 5214 (4): 451-495, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5214.4.1
036C87E0B13FFF9DD3CF555061C9C533.taxon	distribution	Distribution: SE coastal, Murray-Darling basin; Qld., N. S. W., A. C. T., Vic.,? N. T.	en	Carpenter, James M., Brown, Graham R. (2022): Catalogue of the Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Zootaxa 5214 (4): 451-495, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5214.4.1
036C87E0B13EFF9DD3CF50E266CEC6D6.taxon	distribution	Distribution: (NE coastal), (N coastal), (N Gulf); Qld.,? N. T.	en	Carpenter, James M., Brown, Graham R. (2022): Catalogue of the Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Zootaxa 5214 (4): 451-495, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5214.4.1
036C87E0B13EFF9DD3CF53C76629C18C.taxon	distribution	Distribution: NE coastal, Murray-Darling basin; Qld.	en	Carpenter, James M., Brown, Graham R. (2022): Catalogue of the Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Zootaxa 5214 (4): 451-495, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5214.4.1
036C87E0B13EFF9ED3CF57676603C7D7.taxon	distribution	Distribution: N coastal, NE coastal, N Gulf; N. T., Qld.	en	Carpenter, James M., Brown, Graham R. (2022): Catalogue of the Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Zootaxa 5214 (4): 451-495, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5214.4.1
036C87E0B13DFF9ED3CF52C06666C197.taxon	distribution	Distribution: NE coastal, N Gulf, Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal, (N coastal); Qld., N. S. W., N. T. specimens may be incorrectly labeled.	en	Carpenter, James M., Brown, Graham R. (2022): Catalogue of the Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Zootaxa 5214 (4): 451-495, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5214.4.1
036C87E0B13DFF9ED3CF548067BEC327.taxon	distribution	Distribution: NE coastal, N Gulf, (N coastal); Qld., N. T., W. A.; specimens other than from Qld. are believed to be incorrectly labelled.	en	Carpenter, James M., Brown, Graham R. (2022): Catalogue of the Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Zootaxa 5214 (4): 451-495, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5214.4.1
036C87E0B13DFF9FD3CF56F0672AC5A3.taxon	distribution	Distribution: NE coastal; Qld.	en	Carpenter, James M., Brown, Graham R. (2022): Catalogue of the Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Zootaxa 5214 (4): 451-495, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5214.4.1
036C87E0B13CFF9FD3CF53E166F4C7D7.taxon	type_taxon	Type species: Vespa dorylloides de Saussure, 1854 [= Vespa anomala de Saussure, 1854], by original designation.	en	Carpenter, James M., Brown, Graham R. (2022): Catalogue of the Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Zootaxa 5214 (4): 451-495, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5214.4.1
036C87E0B13CFF9FD3CF53E166F4C7D7.taxon	distribution	This genus has a natural distribution in the Oriental Region.	en	Carpenter, James M., Brown, Graham R. (2022): Catalogue of the Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Zootaxa 5214 (4): 451-495, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5214.4.1
036C87E0B13CFF9FD3CF52C0669CC093.taxon	distribution	Distribution: Vietnam; Malaysia: Peninsular Malaysia, Sarawak, Sabah; Indonesia: Sumatra, Bangka, Kalimantan. Introduced into Qld. (1968) but not established.	en	Carpenter, James M., Brown, Graham R. (2022): Catalogue of the Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Zootaxa 5214 (4): 451-495, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5214.4.1
036C87E0B13CFF9FD3CF547961B0C353.taxon	type_taxon	Type species: Vespa austriaca Panzer, 1799, by subsequent designation of Ashmead, 1902: 164. Pseudovespa Schmiedeknecht, 1881: 314, subgenus of Vespa Linnaeus.	en	Carpenter, James M., Brown, Graham R. (2022): Catalogue of the Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Zootaxa 5214 (4): 451-495, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5214.4.1
036C87E0B13CFF9FD3CF547961B0C353.taxon	distribution	This genus has a natural distribution in the Holarctic, Oriental and Neotropical Regions.	en	Carpenter, James M., Brown, Graham R. (2022): Catalogue of the Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Zootaxa 5214 (4): 451-495, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5214.4.1
036C87E0B13CFF98D3CF565C61AAC353.taxon	distribution	Distribution: coastal in N. S. W., Vic., Tas., S. A., W. A.; introduced into Australia (Tas. 1959, N. S. W. 1975, Vic. 1977, W. A. 1977, S. A. 1978, Qld. 1988, N. T. 1992); native to Eurasia, also introduced into New Zealand, North and South America, Iceland, Ascension and South Africa.	en	Carpenter, James M., Brown, Graham R. (2022): Catalogue of the Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Zootaxa 5214 (4): 451-495, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5214.4.1
036C87E0B13BFF99D3CF565C617DC0BF.taxon	distribution	Distribution: SE coastal; Vic., Tas.; introduced into Australia (Vic. 1958, Tas. 1995); native to Eurasia, also introduced into New Zealand; Iceland; Tahiti; Chile; Argentina.	en	Carpenter, James M., Brown, Graham R. (2022): Catalogue of the Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Zootaxa 5214 (4): 451-495, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5214.4.1
