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Polistes bicolor Lepeletier, 1836

Polistes bicolor Lepeletier, 1836:521,Cayenne (Musée de M. Serville); Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:531, Type ♀ (probably MIZSU, Turin). - 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); Bequaert, 1937Bequaert, J. 1937. The american Polistes with prepectal suture. Their structural characters, distribution and variation. Archivos del Instituto de Biología Vegetal, Rio de Janeiro 3 (2):171-205. (distribution); Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567. (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), 214 ( listed as synonym of Polistes occipitalis Ducke, 1904); 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); Cooper, 1996Cooper, M. 1996. Notes on Neotropical Polistes (Vespidae). Sphecos 30:10. (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); 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).
Polistes deuteroleucus Ducke, 1906:11, Lectotype ♂, examined (MNHN, Paris), designated by Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:531. Synonymized with Polistes bicolor Lepeletier, 1836 by Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:531.
Polistes bicolor unicolor Ducke, 1908:700, Lectotype ♀, examined (Mus. Paulista), designated by Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:531. - Bequaert, 1937Bequaert, J. 1937. The american Polistes with prepectal suture. Their structural characters, distribution and variation. Archivos del Instituto de Biología Vegetal, Rio de Janeiro 3 (2):171-205.:192 ( listed as synonym of Polistes duckei Bequaert, 1937); Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:531 ( listed as synonym of Polistes bicolor Lepeletier, 1836).
Polistes duckei Bequaert, 1937:192 Synonymized with Polistes bicolor Lepeletier, 1836 by Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:531. - Bequaert, 1937Bequaert, J. 1937. The american Polistes with prepectal suture. Their structural characters, distribution and variation. Archivos del Instituto de Biología Vegetal, Rio de Janeiro 3 (2):171-205. (distribution).
Polistes sosia Bequaert, 1937:190, Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:531, Holotype ♀ (Dept. Entom., Univ. Cornell). Synonymized with Polistes bicolor Lepeletier, 1836 by Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:531.

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Area distribution map

map of Polistes bicolor Lepeletier, 1836

Distribution

BRABrazil
 (Richards, 1978; Richards, 1978 [as Polistes deuteroleucus Ducke, 1906]; Carpenter & Vecht, 1991; Silveira et al., 2008)
COLColombia
 (Richards, 1978; Cooper, 1996)
CRICosta Rica
 (West-Eberhard et al., 1995 new; Valverde et al., 2019)
ECUEcuador
 (Richards, 1978; Cooper, 1996)
GUFFrench Guiana
 (Lepeletier, 1836; Smith, 1857; Dalla Torre, 1894; Bequaert, 1937; Richards, 1978)
PANPanama
 (Bequaert, 1937 [as Polistes duckei Bequaert, 1937]; Richards, 1978; Richards, 1978 [as Polistes bicolor unicolor Ducke, 1908])
PERPeru
 (Bequaert, 1937 [as Polistes duckei Bequaert, 1937]; Richards, 1978; Richards, 1978 [as Polistes sosia Bequaert, 1937]; Rasmussen & Asenjo, 2009)
SURSuriname
 (Smith, 1857; Richards, 1978)
VENVenezuela
 (Richards, 1978)

Literature

  • Bequaert, J. 1937. The american Polistes with prepectal suture. Their structural characters, distribution and variation. Archivos del Instituto de Biología Vegetal, Rio de Janeiro 3 (2):171-205.
  • 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.
  • Cooper, M. 1996. Notes on Neotropical Polistes (Vespidae). Sphecos 30:10.
  • Dalla Torre, C.G. 1894. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus, IX. Vespidae (Diploptera). Guilelmi Engelmann, 181.
  • Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau, A. 1836. Histoire Naturelles des Insectes. Hyménoptères. Vol. 1. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris. 1-547.
  • 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.
  • 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.