Vespa analis Fabricius, 1798:261, sex not indicated.Cajennae (leg. Richard); Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:536, Types, sex unstated (depository unknown). - Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:535 ( listed as synonym of Polistes testaceicolor Bequaert, 1937). - As Polistes analis: - Schomburgk, 1848Schomburgk, R. 1848. Reisen in Britisch-Guiana in den Jahren 1840-1844. Dritter Theil. Verlagsbuchhandlung von J. J. Webre, Leipzig. (distribution); Smith, 1857Smith, F. 1857. Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part V. Vespidae. London. 147 pp. (distribution); Dalla Torre, 1894Dalla Torre, C.G. 1894. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus, IX. Vespidae (Diploptera). Guilelmi Engelmann, 181. (distribution); Bodkin, 1918Bodkin, G.E. 1918. Notes on some British Guiana Hymenoptera (exclusive of the Formicidae). The Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1917:297-321, pls. XXI-XXIII. (distribution).
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