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Polybia quadricincta Saussure, 1854

Polybia quadricincta Saussure, 1854:173, Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:54, Holotype ♀, examined (BMNH). Synonymized with Polybia bifasciata Saussure, 1854 by Meade-Waldo, 1911Meade-Waldo, G. 1911. New species of Diploptera in the collection of the British Museum. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 8: v. 7:98-113.:108. - Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567. (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); Santos et al., 2015Santos, E.F. dos, Y.C Grandinete & F.B. Noll 2015. Additions to the checklist of Scoliidae, Sphecidae, Pompilidae and Vespidae of Peru, with notes on the endemic status of some species (Hymenoptera, Aculeata). ZooKeys 519:33-48. (distribution). - As Polybia bifasciata quadricincta: - Bequaert, 1942Bequaert, J.C. 1942. New and imperfectly known neotropical Polybiinæ (Hymenoptera, Vespidæ). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 50 (4):295-308. (distribution).
Polybia cordata Smith, 1857:129, Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:54, Holotype ♀, examined (BMNH). - Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:54 ( listed as synonym of Polybia quadricincta Saussure, 1854).
Polybia bifasciata xanthopyga Bequaert, 1942:302, ♀xw. Holotype ♀, Colombia: Villavicencio, Int. del Meta, 450 m. (Mus. Comp. Zoöl., Cambridge, Mass., leg. J. Bequaert); Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:54, Holotype ♀, examined (MCZ, Boston). Synonymized with Polybia quadricincta Saussure, 1854 by Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:54.
Polybia bifasciata restrepoensis Bequaert, 1942:302, ♀xw. Holotype ♀, Colombia: Restrepo, Int. del Meta, 500 m. (Mus. Comp. Zoöl., Cambridge, Mass., leg. J. Bequaert); Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:54, Holotype ♀, examined (MCZ, Boston). Synonymized with Polybia quadricincta Saussure, 1854 by Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:54. - Bequaert, 1942Bequaert, J.C. 1942. New and imperfectly known neotropical Polybiinæ (Hymenoptera, Vespidæ). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 50 (4):295-308. (distribution).
Polybia bifasciata mellipennis Bequaert, 1942:303, Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:54, Holotype ♀, examined (MCZ, Boston). Synonymized with Polybia quadricincta Saussure, 1854 by Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:54.

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Area distribution map

map of Polybia quadricincta Saussure, 1854

Distribution

BOLBolivia
 (Bequaert, 1942; Richards, 1978)
BRABrazil
 (Richards, 1978 [as Polybia cordata Smith, 1857]; Richards, 1978; Silveira et al., 2008)
COLColombia
 (Bequaert, 1942; Bequaert, 1942 [as Polybia bifasciata xanthopyga Bequaert, 1942]; Bequaert, 1942 [as Polybia bifasciata restrepoensis Bequaert, 1942]; Richards, 1978 [as Polybia bifasciata xanthopyga Bequaert, 1942]; Richards, 1978 [as Polybia bifasciata restrepoensis Bequaert, 1942]; Richards, 1978)
GUFFrench Guiana
 (Bequaert, 1942; Richards, 1978)
GUYGuyana
 (Bequaert, 1942; Richards, 1978)
PERPeru
 (Bequaert, 1942; Bequaert, 1942 [as Polybia bifasciata restrepoensis Bequaert, 1942]; Richards, 1978 [as Polybia bifasciata mellipennis Bequaert, 1942]; Rasmussen & Asenjo, 2009; Santos et al., 2015)
SURSuriname
 (Richards, 1978)
TTOTrinidad and Tobago
 (Bequaert, 1942; Starr & Hook, 2003)
VENVenezuela
 (Bequaert, 1942)

Literature

  • 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.
  • Bequaert, J.C. 1942. New and imperfectly known neotropical Polybiinæ (Hymenoptera, Vespidæ). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 50 (4):295-308.
  • 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.
  • Dalla Torre, C.G. 1894. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus, IX. Vespidae (Diploptera). Guilelmi Engelmann, 181.
  • Meade-Waldo, G. 1911. New species of Diploptera in the collection of the British Museum. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 8: v. 7:98-113.
  • 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.
  • Santos, E.F. dos, Y.C Grandinete & F.B. Noll 2015. Additions to the checklist of Scoliidae, Sphecidae, Pompilidae and Vespidae of Peru, with notes on the endemic status of some species (Hymenoptera, Aculeata). ZooKeys 519:33-48.
  • 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.
  • 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.