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Polistes major castaneicolor Bequaert, 1936

Polistes major castaneicolor Bequaert, 1936:12, ♂♀xw. Allotype ♂, Sa Catalina Mts., 3000 to 4000 ft., Pima County, Arizona (Museum of Comparative Zoölogy, Cambridge, Mass., leg. A.A. Nichol); Holotype ♀, Palmerlee (or Garces), Cochise County, Arizona (Museum of Comparative Zoölogy, Cambridge, Mass., leg. C.R. Biedermann); Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:447, Holotype ♀ (MCZ, Boston). - Bequaert, 1936Bequaert, J.C. 1936. Two new color forms of Polistes major Palisot de Beauvois from California and Arizona (Hymenoptera, Vespidae). Entomological News 47:7-13. (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); Bequaert, 1940Bequaert, J.C. 1940. An introductory study of Polistes in the United States and Canada with descriptions of some new North and South American forms (Hymenoptera, Vespidae). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 48 (1):1-31. (distribution); Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567. (distribution); Krombein et al., 1979Krombein, K.V., P.D. Hurd, D.R. Smith & B.D. Burks 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. 1199-2209. (distribution).

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Area distribution map

map of Polistes major castaneicolor Bequaert, 1936

Distribution

COLColombia
 (Bequaert, 1936; Bequaert, 1937)
MEXMexico
 (Krombein et al., 1979)
MEX-JalMexico - Jalisco
 (Bequaert, 1937; Bequaert, 1940; Richards, 1978)
USA-AZUnited States - Arizona
 (Bequaert, 1937; Bequaert, 1940; Richards, 1978; Krombein et al., 1979)
USA-NMUnited States - New Mexico
 (Bequaert, 1940; Richards, 1978; Krombein et al., 1979)

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.
  • Bequaert, J.C. 1936. Two new color forms of Polistes major Palisot de Beauvois from California and Arizona (Hymenoptera, Vespidae). Entomological News 47:7-13.
  • Bequaert, J.C. 1940. An introductory study of Polistes in the United States and Canada with descriptions of some new North and South American forms (Hymenoptera, Vespidae). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 48 (1):1-31.
  • Krombein, K.V., P.D. Hurd, D.R. Smith & B.D. Burks 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. 1199-2209.
  • Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.