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Polybia rejecta (Fabricius, 1798)

Vespa rejecta Fabricius, 1798:264,Cajennae (leg. Richard); Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:122, Holotype ♀ (UZM, Copenhagen). - As Polistes reiecta: - Schomburgk, 1848Schomburgk, R. 1848. Reisen in Britisch-Guiana in den Jahren 1840-1844. Dritter Theil. Verlagsbuchhandlung von J. J. Webre, Leipzig. (distribution). - As Polistes reiecta: - Schomburgk, 1848Schomburgk, R. 1848. Reisen in Britisch-Guiana in den Jahren 1840-1844. Dritter Theil. Verlagsbuchhandlung von J. J. Webre, Leipzig. (distribution). - As Polistes rejecta: - As Polybia rejecta: - 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); 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. (distribution); Meade-Waldo & Morley, 1914Meade-Waldo, G. & C. Morley 1914. Notes and synonymy of Hymenoptera in the collection of the British Museum. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 8: v. 14:402-410. (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); Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567. (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); 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); 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); Vanoye-Eligio et al., 2014Vanoye-Eligio, M., V. Meléndez-Ramírez, R. Ayala, J. Navarro & H. Delfin-González 2014. Predatory Wasps (Hymenoptera) of the Yucatan Peninsula. Southwestern Entomoloigst 39 (3):635-646. (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); Vanoye-Eligio et al., 2015Vanoye-Eligio, M., V. Meléndez-Ramírez, R. Ayala, J. Navarro-Alberto & H. Delfín-González 2015. Avispas depredadoras de áreas naturales protegidas del estado de Yucatán, México. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 86:989-997. (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); Vanoye-Eligio et al., 2020Vanoye-Eligio, M., J.V. HortaVega, V. Vanoye-Eligio, M. Rosas-Mejía & L.J. Estrada Ramírez 2020. Review of Occurrence of Vespoidea (Hymenoptera) in the State of Campeche, Mexico. Journal of Entomological Science 55 (3):366-381. (distribution).
Polybia brunnea Curtis, 1844:256 - 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. (distribution), 107 ( listed as synonym of Polybia rejecta (Fabricius, 1798)); Rasmussen & Asenjo, 2009Rasmussen, C. & A. Asenjo 2009. A checklist to the wasps of Peru (Hymenoptera, Aculeata). ZooKeys 15:1-78. (distribution).
Polybia vicina Saussure, 1853:189, Carpenter, 1999Carpenter, J.M. 1999. Taxonomic notes on paper wasps (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Polistinae). American Museum Novitates 3259:1-44.:5, Lectotype ♀ (MNHN). - 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. (distribution), 107 ( listed as synonym of Polybia rejecta (Fabricius, 1798)).
Polybia bicolor Smith, 1857:131 - 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. (distribution), 107 ( listed as synonym of Polybia rejecta (Fabricius, 1798)); Meade-Waldo & Morley, 1914Meade-Waldo, G. & C. Morley 1914. Notes and synonymy of Hymenoptera in the collection of the British Museum. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 8: v. 14:402-410.:407 ( listed as synonym of Polybia rejecta (Fabricius, 1798)).
Polybia rejecta belizensis Cameron, 1906:151, ♀. ♀, Belize (Prof. C.F. Baker, leg. J.D. Johnson); Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:122, Holotype ♀, examined (BMNH). - Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:122 ( listed as synonym of Polybia rejecta (Fabricius, 1798)). - As Polybia belizensis: - Meade-Waldo & Morley, 1914Meade-Waldo, G. & C. Morley 1914. Notes and synonymy of Hymenoptera in the collection of the British Museum. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 8: v. 14:402-410.:407 ( listed as synonym of Polybia rejecta (Fabricius, 1798)).
Polybia rejecta javaryensis Cameron, 1906:152, sex not indicated.Belize (Prof. C.F. Baker, leg. J.D. Johnson); Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:122, Holotype ♀, examined (BMNH). - Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:122 ( listed as synonym of Polybia rejecta (Fabricius, 1798)).
Polybia litoralis Zavattari, 1906:12, ♂. 5 ♀♀, Punta de Sabana; Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:122, Holotype ♀ (MIZSU, Turin). - Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:122 ( listed as synonym of Polybia rejecta (Fabricius, 1798)).

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Area distribution map

map of Polybia rejecta (Fabricius, 1798)

Distribution

BLZBelize
 (Cameron, 1906 [as Polybia rejecta belizensis Cameron, 1906]; Cameron, 1906 [as Polybia rejecta javaryensis Cameron, 1906]; Richards, 1978; Richards, 1978 [as Polybia rejecta belizensis Cameron, 1906])
BOLBolivia
 (Richards, 1978)
BRABrazil
 (Meade-Waldo, 1911 [as Polybia bicolor Smith, 1857]; Meade-Waldo, 1911 [as Polybia brunnea Curtis, 1844]; Meade-Waldo, 1911 [as Polybia vicina Saussure, 1853]; Richards, 1978; Richards, 1978 [as Polybia rejecta javaryensis Cameron, 1906]; Carpenter & Vecht, 1991; Silveira et al., 2008)
COLColombia
 (Richards, 1978)
CRICosta Rica
 (Richards, 1978; Starr, 1987; West-Eberhard et al., 1995; Valverde et al., 2019)
ECUEcuador
 (Richards, 1978; Richards, 1978 [as Polybia litoralis Zavattari, 1906])
GTMGuatemala
 (Richards, 1978; Carpenter et al., 2012)
GUFFrench Guiana
 (Fabricius, 1798; Smith, 1857; Dalla Torre, 1894; Meade-Waldo, 1911; Richards, 1978; Richards, 1978)
GUYGuyana
 (Schomburgk, 1848; Meade-Waldo & Morley, 1914; Richards, 1978)
HNDHonduras
 (Richards, 1978)
MEX-CamMexico - Campeche
 (Vanoye-Eligio et al., 2014; Vanoye-Eligio et al., 2020)
MEX-VdIMexico - Veracruz
 (Richards, 1978)
MEX-YucMexico - Yucatán
 (Richards, 1978; Vanoye-Eligio et al., 2014; Vanoye-Eligio et al., 2015)
NICNicaragua
 (Richards, 1978)
PANPanama
 (Zavattari, 1906 [as Polybia litoralis Zavattari, 1906]; Richards, 1978)
PERPeru
 (Richards, 1978; Rasmussen & Asenjo, 2009; Rasmussen & Asenjo, 2009 [as Polybia brunnea Curtis, 1844]; Santos et al., 2015)
SURSuriname
 (Richards, 1978)
TTOTrinidad and Tobago
 (Bequaert, 1929; Richards, 1978; Starr & Hook, 2003)
VENVenezuela
 (Richards, 1978)

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.
  • Cameron, P. 1906. On some Vespidae from Belize. Invertebrata Pacifica 1:150-153.
  • Carpenter, J.M. 1999. Taxonomic notes on paper wasps (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Polistinae). American Museum Novitates 3259:1-44.
  • 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., 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.
  • Dalla Torre, C.G. 1894. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus, IX. Vespidae (Diploptera). Guilelmi Engelmann, 181.
  • Fabricius, J.C. 1798. Supplementum Entomologiae Systematicae. Hafniae, Proft et Storch.
  • 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.
  • Meade-Waldo, G. & C. Morley 1914. Notes and synonymy of Hymenoptera in the collection of the British Museum. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 8: v. 14:402-410.
  • 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.
  • Schomburgk, R. 1848. Reisen in Britisch-Guiana in den Jahren 1840-1844. Dritter Theil. Verlagsbuchhandlung von J. J. Webre, Leipzig.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Vanoye-Eligio, M., J.V. HortaVega, V. Vanoye-Eligio, M. Rosas-Mejía & L.J. Estrada Ramírez 2020. Review of Occurrence of Vespoidea (Hymenoptera) in the State of Campeche, Mexico. Journal of Entomological Science 55 (3):366-381.
  • Vanoye-Eligio, M., V. Meléndez-Ramírez, R. Ayala, J. Navarro & H. Delfin-González 2014. Predatory Wasps (Hymenoptera) of the Yucatan Peninsula. Southwestern Entomoloigst 39 (3):635-646.
  • Vanoye-Eligio, M., V. Meléndez-Ramírez, R. Ayala, J. Navarro-Alberto & H. Delfín-González 2015. Avispas depredadoras de áreas naturales protegidas del estado de Yucatán, México. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 86:989-997.
  • 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.