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Polybia sericea (Olivier, 1791)

Vespa sericea Olivier, 1791:675, Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:107, Holotype ♀ (lost). - As Polybia sericea: - 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); Cameron, 1912Cameron, P. 1912. The Hymenoptera of the Georgetown Museum. Part III. Timehri 3rd ser. (2):207-231. (distribution); 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); 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); Rasmussen & Asenjo, 2009Rasmussen, C. & A. Asenjo 2009. A checklist to the wasps of Peru (Hymenoptera, Aculeata). ZooKeys 15:1-78. (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); 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); Halmenschlager et al., 2019Halmenschlager, M.Y., J.C. Agudelo Martínez & N.F. Pérez-Buitrago 2019. New records of Vespidae (Hymenoptera: Vespoidea) for the Colombian Orinoco Region. Biota Colombiana 20 (1):21-33. (distribution); León-Burgos et al., 2019León-Burgos, A.F., J.I. Murillo-Pacheco, D. Bautista-Zamora & J. Quinto 2019. Insectos benéficos asociados a plantas arvenses atrayentes en agroecosistemas del Piedemonte de la Orinoquia Colombiana. Cuadernos de Biodiversidad 56:1-14. (distribution).
Polistes nigripennis Fabricius, 1804:272, sex not indicated.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.:107, Types ♀ (UZM, Copenhagen). - Schomburgk, 1848Schomburgk, R. 1848. Reisen in Britisch-Guiana in den Jahren 1840-1844. Dritter Theil. Verlagsbuchhandlung von J. J. Webre, Leipzig. (distribution); Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:107 ( listed as synonym of Polybia sericea (Olivier, 1791)). - As Polybia nigripennis: - Viereck, 1902Viereck, H.L. 1902. Notes on Vespoidea. Entomological News 13 (9):273-274. (distribution).
Apoica cubitalis Saussure, 1854:109, Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:107, Holotype ♀, examined (MNHN, Paris). - Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:107 ( listed as synonym of Polybia sericea (Olivier, 1791)).
Polybia melanocephala Cameron, 1906:152, ♀.Rio Purus, Amazons (leg. Prof. J.W.H. Trail); Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:107, Holotype ♀, examined (BMNH). - Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:107 ( listed as synonym of Polybia sericea (Olivier, 1791)).
Polybia nigriceps Cameron, 1912:210, ♀. ♀, British Guiana (Georgetown Museum); Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:107, Holotype ♀, examined (BMNH). - Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:107 ( listed as synonym of Polybia sericea (Olivier, 1791)).

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Area distribution map

map of Polybia sericea (Olivier, 1791)

Distribution

ARGArgentina
 (Richards, 1978)
BRABrazil
 (Smith, 1857; Dalla Torre, 1894; Cameron, 1906 [as Polybia melanocephala Cameron, 1906]; Richards, 1978 [as Apoica cubitalis Saussure, 1854]; Richards, 1978; Richards, 1978 [as Polybia melanocephala Cameron, 1906]; Carpenter & Vecht, 1991; Silvestre et al., 2014)
COLColombia
 (Richards, 1978; Halmenschlager et al., 2019; León-Burgos et al., 2019)
GUFFrench Guiana
 (Smith, 1857; Dalla Torre, 1894; Richards, 1978; Richards, 1978)
GUYGuyana
 (Schomburgk, 1848 [as Polistes nigripennis Fabricius, 1804]; Viereck, 1902 [as Polybia nigripennis (Fabricius, 1804)]; Cameron, 1912; Cameron, 1912 [as Polybia nigriceps Cameron, 1912]; Bodkin, 1918; Richards, 1978; Richards, 1978 [as Polybia nigriceps Cameron, 1912])
PERPeru
 (Richards, 1978; Rasmussen & Asenjo, 2009; Santos et al., 2015)
PRYParaguay
 (Richards, 1978)
SURSuriname
 (Richards, 1978)
URYUruguay
 (Richards, 1978)
VENVenezuela
 (Richards, 1978)

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. 1906. On some neotropical Vespidae. The Entomologist 39:151-153.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Halmenschlager, M.Y., J.C. Agudelo Martínez & N.F. Pérez-Buitrago 2019. New records of Vespidae (Hymenoptera: Vespoidea) for the Colombian Orinoco Region. Biota Colombiana 20 (1):21-33.
  • León-Burgos, A.F., J.I. Murillo-Pacheco, D. Bautista-Zamora & J. Quinto 2019. Insectos benéficos asociados a plantas arvenses atrayentes en agroecosistemas del Piedemonte de la Orinoquia Colombiana. Cuadernos de Biodiversidad 56:1-14.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Smith, F. 1857. Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part V. Vespidae. London. 147 pp.
  • Viereck, H.L. 1902. Notes on Vespoidea. Entomological News 13 (9):273-274.