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Polistes pacificus pacificus Fabricius, 1804

Polistes pacifica Fabricius, 1804:274,America meridionali (Mus. Dom. Lund, leg. Smidt); Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:547, Typex ♀ (UZM, Copenhagen). - As Polistes fuscatus pacificus: - Dalla Torre, 1894Dalla Torre, C.G. 1894. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus, IX. Vespidae (Diploptera). Guilelmi Engelmann, 181. (distribution). - As Polistes pacificus: - 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); 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); Maes, 1999 1999. Catalogo de los insectos y artropodos terrestres de Nicaragua. Volumen III. León, Nicaragua. 1170-1898. (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); 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); Somavilla et al., 2018Somavilla, A., M.L. Oliveira, S.R. Andena & J.M. Carpenter 2018. An illustrated atlas for male genitalia of the New World Polistes Latreille, 1802 (Vespidae: Polistinae). Zootaxa 4504 (3):301-344. (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). - As Polistes pacificus pacificus: - 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); 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).
Polistes pacificus flavopictus Ducke, 1918 - 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).

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Area distribution map

map of Polistes pacificus pacificus Fabricius, 1804

Distribution

BOLBolivia
 (Maes, 1999)
BRABrazil
 (Dalla Torre, 1894; Bequaert, 1937; Richards, 1978; Carpenter & Vecht, 1991; Maes, 1999; Silveira et al., 2008)
COLColombia
 (Bequaert, 1937; Richards, 1978; Maes, 1999)
CRICosta Rica
 (Starr, 1987; West-Eberhard et al., 1995; Maes, 1999; Valverde et al., 2019)
ECUEcuador
 (Maes, 1999)
GTMGuatemala
 (Maes, 1999; Carpenter et al., 2012)
GUFFrench Guiana
 (Richards, 1978; Maes, 1999)
GUYGuyana
 (Cameron, 1912; Bodkin, 1918; Richards, 1978; Maes, 1999)
HNDHonduras
 (Maes, 1999)
MEXMexico
 (Maes, 1999)
MEX-ColMexico - Colima
 (Bequaert, 1937; Richards, 1978; Somavilla et al., 2018)
MEX-VdIMexico - Veracruz
 (Richards, 1978)
MEX-YucMexico - Yucatán
 (Vanoye-Eligio et al., 2014; Vanoye-Eligio et al., 2015)
NICNicaragua
 (Maes, 1999)
PANPanama
 (Maes, 1999)
PERPeru
 (Bequaert, 1937; Richards, 1978; Maes, 1999; Rasmussen & Asenjo, 2009)
PRYParaguay
 (Maes, 1999)
SURSuriname
 (Maes, 1999)
TTOTrinidad and Tobago
 (Bequaert, 1937; Richards, 1978; Maes, 1999; Starr & Hook, 2003; Somavilla et al., 2018)
USAUnited States
 (Maes, 1999)
USA-TXUnited States - Texas
 (Richards, 1978; Krombein et al., 1979)
VENVenezuela
 (Maes, 1999)

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.
  • 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. 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.
  • 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. 1804. Systema Piezatorum secundum Ordines, Genera, Species adiectis Synonymis, Locis, Observationibus, Descriptionibus. Apud Carolum Reichard, Brunsvigae. xiv + 440 + 30 pp.
  • 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.
  • 1999. Catalogo de los insectos y artropodos terrestres de Nicaragua. Volumen III. León, Nicaragua. 1170-1898.
  • 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.
  • Somavilla, A., M.L. Oliveira, S.R. Andena & J.M. Carpenter 2018. An illustrated atlas for male genitalia of the New World Polistes Latreille, 1802 (Vespidae: Polistinae). Zootaxa 4504 (3):301-344.
  • 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., 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.