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Metapolybia cingulata (Fabricius, 1804)

Eumenes cingulata Fabricius, 1804:287,America meridionali (Mus. Dom. de Sehestedt, leg. Smidt); Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:184, Types 2 ♀ (UZM, Copenhagen). - 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). - As Metapolybia cingulata: - Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567. (distribution); Carpenter & Ross, 1984Carpenter, J.M. & K.G. Ross 1984. Colony composition in four species of Polistinae from Suriname, with a description of the larva of Brachygastra scutellaris (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Psyche 91:237-250. (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).
Polybia pediculata Saussure, 1853:205, Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:184, Holotype ♀, examined (BMNH). - Smith, 1862Smith, F. 1862. Descriptions of new speciews of aculeate Hymenoptera, collected at Panama by R. W. Stretch, Esq, with a list of described species, and the various localities where they have previously occured. Transaction of the Entomological Society of London ser. 3 (1):29-44. (distribution); Dalla Torre, 1894Dalla Torre, C.G. 1894. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus, IX. Vespidae (Diploptera). Guilelmi Engelmann, 181. (distribution); Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:184 ( listed as synonym of Metapolybia cingulata (Fabricius, 1804)); 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). - As Metapolybia pediculata: - 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). - As Polybia pedunculata: - Cameron, 1912Cameron, P. 1912. The Hymenoptera of the Georgetown Museum. Part III. Timehri 3rd ser. (2):207-231. (distribution). - As Polybia pedunculata: - Cameron, 1912Cameron, P. 1912. The Hymenoptera of the Georgetown Museum. Part III. Timehri 3rd ser. (2):207-231. (distribution).

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Area distribution map

map of Metapolybia cingulata (Fabricius, 1804)

Distribution

BRABrazil
 (Smith, 1862 [as Polybia pediculata Saussure, 1853]; Dalla Torre, 1894 [as Polybia pediculata Saussure, 1853]; Richards, 1978; Richards, 1978 [as Polybia pediculata Saussure, 1853]; Carpenter & Vecht, 1991 [as Polybia pediculata Saussure, 1853]; Silveira et al., 2008)
COLColombia
 (Richards, 1978)
ECUEcuador
 (Richards, 1978)
GUFFrench Guiana
 (Smith, 1857; Dalla Torre, 1894)
GUYGuyana
 (Cameron, 1912 [as Polybia pedunculata Saussure, 1853]; Bodkin, 1918 [as Metapolybia pediculata (Saussure, 1853)]; Richards, 1978)
PANPanama
 (Smith, 1862 [as Polybia pediculata Saussure, 1853])
PERPeru
 (Richards, 1978; Rasmussen & Asenjo, 2009)
SURSuriname
 (Richards, 1978; Carpenter & Ross, 1984)
TTOTrinidad and Tobago
 (Richards, 1978; Starr & Hook, 2003)

Literature

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Carpenter, J.M. & K.G. Ross 1984. Colony composition in four species of Polistinae from Suriname, with a description of the larva of Brachygastra scutellaris (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Psyche 91:237-250.
  • Dalla Torre, C.G. 1894. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus, IX. Vespidae (Diploptera). Guilelmi Engelmann, 181.
  • Fabricius, J.C. 1804. Systema Piezatorum secundum Ordines, Genera, Species adiectis Synonymis, Locis, Observationibus, Descriptionibus. Apud Carolum Reichard, Brunsvigae. xiv + 440 + 30 pp.
  • 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.
  • Smith, F. 1857. Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part V. Vespidae. London. 147 pp.
  • Smith, F. 1862. Descriptions of new speciews of aculeate Hymenoptera, collected at Panama by R. W. Stretch, Esq, with a list of described species, and the various localities where they have previously occured. Transaction of the Entomological Society of London ser. 3 (1):29-44.
  • 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.