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Apoica pallens (Fabricius, 1804)

Polistes pallens Fabricius, 1804:276,America meridionali (Mus. Dom. Lund, leg. Smidt); Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:264, Lectotype ♀ (UZM, Copenhagen). - As Apoica pallens: - 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); Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567. (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); Silveira et al., 2008Silveira, O.T., S.V. da Costa Neto & O.F.M. da Silveira 2008. Social wasps of two wetland ecosystems in brazilian Amazonia (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Polistinae). Acta Amazonica 38 (2):333-344. (distribution); Rasmussen & Asenjo, 2009Rasmussen, C. & A. Asenjo 2009. A checklist to the wasps of Peru (Hymenoptera, Aculeata). ZooKeys 15:1-78. (distribution); Kumar et al., 2009Kumar, J.T. Longino, R.K. Colwell & S. O'Donnell 2009. Elevational patterns of diversity and abundance of eusocial paper wasps (Vespidae) in Costa Rica. Biotropica 41 (3):338-346. (distribution); Carpenter et al., 2012Carpenter, J.M., B.R. Garcete-Barrett & Y.J.A.F. López 2012. Las Vespidae (Hymenoptera: Vespoidea) de Guatemala. In: Cano, E.B. & J.C. Schuster (Ed.). Biodiversidad de Guatemala. Volumen 2. 269-279. (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); Valverde et al., 2019Valverde, P., P. Hanson & J. Carpenter 2019. Keys to the Costa Rican species of paper wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Polistinae). Revista de Biología Tropical (International Journal of Tropical Biology and Conservation) 67 (2):174-199. (distribution). - As Apoica pallida pallens: - Bequaert, 1943Bequaert, J.C. 1943. Color variation and distribution of Apoica pallida (Olivier), a nocturnal neotropical social wasp (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 69:107-118. (distribution).

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Area distribution map

map of Apoica pallens (Fabricius, 1804)

Distribution

ARGArgentina
 (Richards, 1978)
BLZBelize
 (Bequaert, 1943; Richards, 1978)
BOLBolivia
 (Bequaert, 1943; Richards, 1978)
BRABrazil
 (Bequaert, 1943; Richards, 1978; Silveira et al., 2008; Silvestre et al., 2014)
COLColombia
 (Bequaert, 1943; Richards, 1978)
CRICosta Rica
 (Bequaert, 1943; Richards, 1978; West-Eberhard et al., 1995; Kumar et al., 2009; Valverde et al., 2019)
ECUEcuador
 (Bequaert, 1943; Richards, 1978)
GRDGrenada
 (Bequaert, 1943)
GTMGuatemala
 (Bequaert, 1943; Carpenter et al., 2012)
GUFFrench Guiana
 (Bequaert, 1943; Richards, 1978)
GUYGuyana
 (Bodkin, 1918; Bequaert, 1943; Richards, 1978)
HNDHonduras
 (Bequaert, 1943)
MEXMexico
 (Richards, 1978)
MEX-VdIMexico - Veracruz
 (Bequaert, 1943)
NICNicaragua
 (Bequaert, 1943)
PANPanama
 (Bequaert, 1943; Richards, 1978)
PERPeru
 (Richards, 1978; Rasmussen & Asenjo, 2009)
PRYParaguay
 (Bequaert, 1943; Richards, 1978)
SLVEl Salvador
 (Richards, 1978)
SURSuriname
 (Bequaert, 1943; Richards, 1978)
TTOTrinidad and Tobago
 (Bequaert, 1943; Richards, 1978; Starr & Hook, 2003)
VENVenezuela
 (Bequaert, 1943; Richards, 1978)

Literature

  • Bequaert, J.C. 1943. Color variation and distribution of Apoica pallida (Olivier), a nocturnal neotropical social wasp (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 69:107-118.
  • 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.
  • Carpenter, J.M., B.R. Garcete-Barrett & Y.J.A.F. López 2012. Las Vespidae (Hymenoptera: Vespoidea) de Guatemala. In: Cano, E.B. & J.C. Schuster (Ed.). Biodiversidad de Guatemala. Volumen 2. 269-279.
  • Fabricius, J.C. 1804. Systema Piezatorum secundum Ordines, Genera, Species adiectis Synonymis, Locis, Observationibus, Descriptionibus. Apud Carolum Reichard, Brunsvigae. xiv + 440 + 30 pp.
  • Kumar, J.T. Longino, R.K. Colwell & S. O'Donnell 2009. Elevational patterns of diversity and abundance of eusocial paper wasps (Vespidae) in Costa Rica. Biotropica 41 (3):338-346.
  • 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.
  • Silveira, O.T., S.V. da Costa Neto & O.F.M. da Silveira 2008. Social wasps of two wetland ecosystems in brazilian Amazonia (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Polistinae). Acta Amazonica 38 (2):333-344.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Valverde, P., P. Hanson & J. Carpenter 2019. Keys to the Costa Rican species of paper wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Polistinae). Revista de Biología Tropical (International Journal of Tropical Biology and Conservation) 67 (2):174-199.
  • 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.