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Polybia occidentalis (Olivier, 1791)

Vespa occidentalis Olivier, 1791:675, Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:63, Type[s] probably ♀ (lost). - As Polistes occidentalis: - Ashmead, 1900Ashmead, W.H. 1900. Report upon the aculeate Hymenoptera of the islands of St. Vincent and Grenada, with additions to the parasitic Hymenoptera and a list of the described Hymenoptera of the West Indies. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London pt. II:207-367. (distribution). - As Polybia occidentalis: - Kirby, 1884Kirby, W.F. 1884. On the Hymenoptera collected during the recent expedition of H.M.S. 'Challenger.'. Annals and Magazine of Natural History Ser. 5 (13):402-413. (distribution); Buysson & Marshall, 1892du Buysson, R. & T.A. Marshall 1892. Voyage de M. E. Simon au Venezuela (Décembre 1887 - Avril 1888). Annales de la Société Entomoloqique de France 61:53-76, pls. 3-4. (distribution); Dalla Torre, 1894Dalla Torre, C.G. 1894. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus, IX. Vespidae (Diploptera). Guilelmi Engelmann, 181. (distribution); Ashmead, 1900Ashmead, W.H. 1900. Report upon the aculeate Hymenoptera of the islands of St. Vincent and Grenada, with additions to the parasitic Hymenoptera and a list of the described Hymenoptera of the West Indies. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London pt. II:207-367. (distribution); Cameron, 1906Cameron, P. 1906. On some Vespidae from Belize. Invertebrata Pacifica 1:150-153. (distribution); Zavattari, 1906Zavattari, E. 1906. Viaggio del Dr. Enrico Festa nel Darien, nell' Ecuador e regioni vicine. Bolletino dei Musei di Zoologia e Anatomia Comparada dela R. Universita di Torino 21 (529):1-22. (distribution); Cameron, 1912Cameron, P. 1912. The Hymenoptera of the Georgetown Museum. Part III. Timehri 3rd ser. (2):207-231. (distribution); Rohwer, 1913Rohwer, S.A. 1913. Results of the Yale Peruvian Expedition of 1911. Hymenoptera, Superfamilies Vespoidea and Sphecoidea. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 44:439-454. (distribution); Rohwer, 1915Rohwer, S.A. 1915. Vespoid and sphecoid Hymenoptera collected in Guatemala by W. P. Cockerell. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 47:513-523. (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); Bequaert, 1929Bequaert, J.C. 1929. The folded-winged wasps of the Bermudas, with some preliminary remarks on insular wasp faunae. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 22 (4):555-582. (distribution); Cockerell, 1949Cockerell, T.D.A. 1949. Bees from Central America, principally Honduras. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 98 (No. 3233):429-490. (distribution); Callan, 1950Callan, E.Mc C. 1950. Observations on tropical wasps in Trinidad. Eighth International Congress of Entomology. Stockholm :204-206. (distribution); Starr, 1987Starr, C.K. 1987. Claves para la identificacion de las avispas sociales del Parque Nacional Santa Rosa, Guanacaste, Costa Rica. Sphecos 15:13-20. (distribution); Carpenter & Vecht, 1991Carpenter, J.M. & J. van der Vecht 1991. A study of the Vespidae described by William J. Fox (Insecta: Hymenoptera), with assessment of taxonomic implications. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 60 (3):211-241. (distribution); West-Eberhard et al., 1995West-Eberhard, M.J., J.M. Carpenter & P.E. Hanson 1995. The vespid wasps (Vespidae). In: Hanson, P.E. & I.D. Gauld (Ed.). The Hymenoptera of Costa Rica. 561-587. (distribution); Starr & Hook, 2003Starr, C.K. & Hook, A.W. 2003. The aculeate Hymenoptera of Trinidad, West Indies. Occasional Papers o the Department of Life Sciences, University of the West Indies 12:1-31. (distribution); Ruíz-Cancino et al., 2005Ruíz-Cancino, E., J.M. Coronado-Blanco & J.V. Horta Vega 2005. Conocimiento actual de las avispas depredadoras (Hymenoptera) en Tamaulipas, México. In: Lozano, L. B., A.C. Sandoval, J.V.H. Vega & J.G. Jiménez (Ed.). Biodiversidad tamaulipeca: vol. 1. 164-170. (distribution); Sarmiento-Monroy, 2009Sarmiento-Monroy, C 2009. Avispas. In: Amat-García, G. (Ed.). Biodiversidad regional: Santa María, Boyacá, Guía de Campo. Artrópodos: Arácnidos, Miriápodos, Crustáceos, Insectos. 172-183. (distribution); Silvestre et al., 2014Silvestre, R., M.F. Demétrio, B.M. Trad, F. Varussa & O. Lima 2014. Diversity and distribution of Hymenoptera Aculeata in Midwestern Brazilian dry forests. In: Greer, F.E. (Ed.). Dry Forests. 29-80. (distribution); Halmenschlager et al., 2019Halmenschlager, M.Y., J.C. Agudelo Martínez & N.F. Pérez-Buitrago 2019. New records of Vespidae (Hymenoptera: Vespoidea) for the Colombian Orinoco Region. Biota Colombiana 20 (1):21-33. (distribution); León-Burgos et al., 2019León-Burgos, A.F., J.I. Murillo-Pacheco, D. Bautista-Zamora & J. Quinto 2019. Insectos benéficos asociados a plantas arvenses atrayentes en agroecosistemas del Piedemonte de la Orinoquia Colombiana. Cuadernos de Biodiversidad 56:1-14. (distribution). - As Polybia occidentalis occidentalis: - Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567. (distribution); Rasmussen & Asenjo, 2009Rasmussen, C. & A. Asenjo 2009. A checklist to the wasps of Peru (Hymenoptera, Aculeata). ZooKeys 15:1-78. (distribution).
Vespa pygmaea Fabricius, 1793:283,Cajennae (leg. Olivier); Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:63, Holotype ♀ (UZM, Copenhagen). - As Polistes pygmaea: - Schomburgk, 1848Schomburgk, R. 1848. Reisen in Britisch-Guiana in den Jahren 1840-1844. Dritter Theil. Verlagsbuchhandlung von J. J. Webre, Leipzig. (distribution). - As Polybia pygmaea: - 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); Cameron, 1907Cameron, P. 1907. On some Diplopteryga of Belize and Nicaragua. Invertebrata Pacifica 1:183-190. (distribution); Cameron, 1912Cameron, P. 1912. The Hymenoptera of the Georgetown Museum. Part III. Timehri 3rd ser. (2):207-231.:215 ( listed as synonym of Polybia occidentalis (Olivier, 1791)); Carpenter & Vecht, 1991Carpenter, J.M. & J. van der Vecht 1991. A study of the Vespidae described by William J. Fox (Insecta: Hymenoptera), with assessment of taxonomic implications. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 60 (3):211-241. (distribution).
Polybia albopicta Smith, 1857:131, Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:64, Holotype ♀, examined (BMNH). - Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:64 ( listed as synonym of Polybia occidentalis occidentalis (Olivier, 1791)).

Common names

  •  Avispa nocturna marrón

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Area distribution map

map of Polybia occidentalis (Olivier, 1791)

Distribution

ARGArgentina
 (Richards, 1978; Sarmiento-Monroy, 2009)
BLZBelize
 (Cameron, 1906)
BOLBolivia
 (Richards, 1978)
BRABrazil
 (Kirby, 1884; Dalla Torre, 1894; Richards, 1978; Richards, 1978 [as Polybia albopicta Smith, 1857]; Carpenter & Vecht, 1991; Carpenter & Vecht, 1991 [as Polybia pygmaea (Fabricius, 1793)]; Silvestre et al., 2014)
COLColombia
 (Sarmiento-Monroy, 2009; Halmenschlager et al., 2019; León-Burgos et al., 2019)
CRICosta Rica
 (Starr, 1987; West-Eberhard et al., 1995)
GRDGrenada
 (Bequaert, 1929)
GTMGuatemala
 (Rohwer, 1915)
GUFFrench Guiana
 (Fabricius, 1793 [as Vespa pygmaea Fabricius, 1793]; Smith, 1857 [as Polybia pygmaea (Fabricius, 1793)]; Dalla Torre, 1894 [as Polybia pygmaea (Fabricius, 1793)]; Richards, 1978; Richards, 1978 [as Vespa pygmaea Fabricius, 1793]; Richards, 1978)
GUYGuyana
 (Schomburgk, 1848 [as Polistes pygmaea (Fabricius, 1793)]; Cameron, 1912; Bodkin, 1918; Richards, 1978)
HNDHonduras
 (Cockerell, 1949)
MEXMexico
 (Cameron, 1907 [as Polybia pygmaea (Fabricius, 1793)])
MEX-TamMexico - Tamaulipas
 (Ruíz-Cancino et al., 2005)
PERPeru
 (Rohwer, 1913; Rasmussen & Asenjo, 2009)
PRYParaguay
 (Richards, 1978)
SURSuriname
 (Richards, 1978)
TTOTrinidad and Tobago
 (Bequaert, 1929; Callan, 1950; Starr & Hook, 2003)
USA-AZUnited States - Arizona
 (Sarmiento-Monroy, 2009)
VCTSaint Vincent and the Grenadines
 (Ashmead, 1900; Ashmead, 1900)
VENVenezuela
 (Buysson & Marshall, 1892; Zavattari, 1906; Richards, 1978)

Literature

  • Ashmead, W.H. 1900. Report upon the aculeate Hymenoptera of the islands of St. Vincent and Grenada, with additions to the parasitic Hymenoptera and a list of the described Hymenoptera of the West Indies. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London pt. II:207-367.
  • Bequaert, J.C. 1929. The folded-winged wasps of the Bermudas, with some preliminary remarks on insular wasp faunae. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 22 (4):555-582.
  • Bodkin, 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.
  • Callan, E.Mc C. 1950. Observations on tropical wasps in Trinidad. Eighth International Congress of Entomology. Stockholm :204-206.
  • Cameron, P. 1906. On some Vespidae from Belize. Invertebrata Pacifica 1:150-153.
  • Cameron, P. 1907. On some Diplopteryga of Belize and Nicaragua. Invertebrata Pacifica 1:183-190.
  • Cameron, P. 1912. The Hymenoptera of the Georgetown Museum. Part III. Timehri 3rd ser. (2):207-231.
  • Carpenter, J.M. & J. van der Vecht 1991. A study of the Vespidae described by William J. Fox (Insecta: Hymenoptera), with assessment of taxonomic implications. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 60 (3):211-241.
  • Cockerell, T.D.A. 1949. Bees from Central America, principally Honduras. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 98 (No. 3233):429-490.
  • Dalla Torre, C.G. 1894. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus, IX. Vespidae (Diploptera). Guilelmi Engelmann, 181.
  • du Buysson, R. & T.A. Marshall 1892. Voyage de M. E. Simon au Venezuela (Décembre 1887 - Avril 1888). Annales de la Société Entomoloqique de France 61:53-76, pls. 3-4.
  • Fabricius, J.C. 1793. Entomologia Systematica emendata et aucta. Vol. 2. Christian Gottlieb Proft, Hafniae. viii + 519 pp.
  • Halmenschlager, M.Y., J.C. Agudelo Martínez & N.F. Pérez-Buitrago 2019. New records of Vespidae (Hymenoptera: Vespoidea) for the Colombian Orinoco Region. Biota Colombiana 20 (1):21-33.
  • Kirby, W.F. 1884. On the Hymenoptera collected during the recent expedition of H.M.S. 'Challenger.'. Annals and Magazine of Natural History Ser. 5 (13):402-413.
  • León-Burgos, A.F., J.I. Murillo-Pacheco, D. Bautista-Zamora & J. Quinto 2019. Insectos benéficos asociados a plantas arvenses atrayentes en agroecosistemas del Piedemonte de la Orinoquia Colombiana. Cuadernos de Biodiversidad 56:1-14.
  • Rasmussen, C. & A. Asenjo 2009. A checklist to the wasps of Peru (Hymenoptera, Aculeata). ZooKeys 15:1-78.
  • Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.
  • Rohwer, S.A. 1913. Results of the Yale Peruvian Expedition of 1911. Hymenoptera, Superfamilies Vespoidea and Sphecoidea. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 44:439-454.
  • Rohwer, S.A. 1915. Vespoid and sphecoid Hymenoptera collected in Guatemala by W. P. Cockerell. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 47:513-523.
  • Ruíz-Cancino, E., J.M. Coronado-Blanco & J.V. Horta Vega 2005. Conocimiento actual de las avispas depredadoras (Hymenoptera) en Tamaulipas, México. In: Lozano, L. B., A.C. Sandoval, J.V.H. Vega & J.G. Jiménez (Ed.). Biodiversidad tamaulipeca: vol. 1. 164-170.
  • Sarmiento-Monroy, C 2009. Avispas. In: Amat-García, G. (Ed.). Biodiversidad regional: Santa María, Boyacá, Guía de Campo. Artrópodos: Arácnidos, Miriápodos, Crustáceos, Insectos. 172-183.
  • Schomburgk, R. 1848. Reisen in Britisch-Guiana in den Jahren 1840-1844. Dritter Theil. Verlagsbuchhandlung von J. J. Webre, Leipzig.
  • Silvestre, R., M.F. Demétrio, B.M. Trad, F. Varussa & O. Lima 2014. Diversity and distribution of Hymenoptera Aculeata in Midwestern Brazilian dry forests. In: Greer, F.E. (Ed.). Dry Forests. 29-80.
  • Smith, F. 1857. Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part V. Vespidae. London. 147 pp.
  • Starr, C.K. 1987. Claves para la identificacion de las avispas sociales del Parque Nacional Santa Rosa, Guanacaste, Costa Rica. Sphecos 15:13-20.
  • Starr, C.K. & Hook, A.W. 2003. The aculeate Hymenoptera of Trinidad, West Indies. Occasional Papers o the Department of Life Sciences, University of the West Indies 12:1-31.
  • West-Eberhard, M.J., J.M. Carpenter & P.E. Hanson 1995. The vespid wasps (Vespidae). In: Hanson, P.E. & I.D. Gauld (Ed.). The Hymenoptera of Costa Rica. 561-587.
  • Zavattari, E. 1906. Viaggio del Dr. Enrico Festa nel Darien, nell' Ecuador e regioni vicine. Bolletino dei Musei di Zoologia e Anatomia Comparada dela R. Universita di Torino 21 (529):1-22.