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Polistes modestus Smith, 1862

Polistes modestus Smith, 1862:38, ♀. ♀, Panama; 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.:200 (British Museum); Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:549, Holotype ♀, examined (BMNH). - Dalla Torre, 1894Dalla Torre, C.G. 1894. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus, IX. Vespidae (Diploptera). Guilelmi Engelmann, 181. (distribution); Maes, 1999 1999. Catalogo de los insectos y artropodos terrestres de Nicaragua. Volumen III. León, Nicaragua. 1170-1898.:1756 ( listed as synonym of Polistes pacificus Fabricius, 1804). - As Polistes pacificus modestus: - 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).

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Area distribution map

map of Polistes modestus Smith, 1862

Distribution

BRABrazil
 (Bequaert, 1937)
COLColombia
 (Bequaert, 1937; Richards, 1978)
CRICosta Rica
 (Bequaert, 1937; Richards, 1978)
ECUEcuador
 (Richards, 1978)
GTMGuatemala
 (Bequaert, 1937; Richards, 1978)
HNDHonduras
 (Bequaert, 1937; Richards, 1978)
MEX-GueMexico - Guerrero
 (Richards, 1978)
MEX-MorMexico - Morelos
 (Richards, 1978)
MEX-VdIMexico - Veracruz
 (Bequaert, 1937; Richards, 1978)
MEX-YucMexico - Yucatán
 (Bequaert, 1937; Richards, 1978)
NICNicaragua
 (Bequaert, 1937; Richards, 1978)
PANPanama
 (Smith, 1862; Dalla Torre, 1894; Bequaert, 1937; Richards, 1978; Richards, 1978)
PERPeru
 (Richards, 1978)
VENVenezuela
 (Bequaert, 1937; 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.
  • Dalla Torre, C.G. 1894. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus, IX. Vespidae (Diploptera). Guilelmi Engelmann, 181.
  • 1999. Catalogo de los insectos y artropodos terrestres de Nicaragua. Volumen III. León, Nicaragua. 1170-1898.
  • Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.
  • 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.