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Apoica thoracica du Buysson, 1906

Apoica pallida thoracica du Buysson, 1906:340, Lectotype ♀ (ZM, Hamburg), designated by Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:268. - Bequaert, 1943Bequaert, J.C. 1943. Color variation and distribution of Apoica pallida (Olivier), a nocturnal neotropical social wasp (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 69:107-118. (distribution). - As Apoica thoracica: - Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567. (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); 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); Sarmiento-Monroy, 2009Sarmiento-Monroy, C 2009. Avispas. In: Amat-García, G. (Ed.). Biodiversidad regional: Santa María, Boyacá, Guía de Campo. Artrópodos: Arácnidos, Miriápodos, Crustáceos, Insectos. 172-183. (distribution); Kumar et al., 2009Kumar, J.T. Longino, R.K. Colwell & S. O'Donnell 2009. Elevational patterns of diversity and abundance of eusocial paper wasps (Vespidae) in Costa Rica. Biotropica 41 (3):338-346. (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); 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); 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).

Common names

  •  Avispa nocturna marrón

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Area distribution map

map of Apoica thoracica du Buysson, 1906

Distribution

BOLBolivia
 (Richards, 1978)
BRABrazil
 (Bequaert, 1943; Richards, 1978; Richards, 1978; Silveira et al., 2008)
COLColombia
 (Richards, 1978; Sarmiento-Monroy, 2009; Halmenschlager et al., 2019)
CRICosta Rica
 (Richards, 1978; West-Eberhard et al., 1995; Kumar et al., 2009; Valverde et al., 2019)
ECUEcuador
 (Bequaert, 1943; Richards, 1978)
GTMGuatemala
 (Bequaert, 1943; Richards, 1978; Carpenter et al., 2012)
GUFFrench Guiana
 (Bequaert, 1943; Richards, 1978)
GUYGuyana
 (Bequaert, 1943; Richards, 1978)
HNDHonduras
 (Richards, 1978)
PANPanama
 (Bequaert, 1943; Richards, 1978)
PERPeru
 (Richards, 1978; Rasmussen & Asenjo, 2009)
SURSuriname
 (Bequaert, 1943; Richards, 1978)
VENVenezuela
 (Richards, 1978)

Literature

  • Bequaert, J.C. 1943. Color variation and distribution of Apoica pallida (Olivier), a nocturnal neotropical social wasp (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 69:107-118.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Kumar, J.T. Longino, R.K. Colwell & S. O'Donnell 2009. Elevational patterns of diversity and abundance of eusocial paper wasps (Vespidae) in Costa Rica. Biotropica 41 (3):338-346.
  • 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.
  • Sarmiento-Monroy, C 2009. Avispas. In: Amat-García, G. (Ed.). Biodiversidad regional: Santa María, Boyacá, Guía de Campo. Artrópodos: Arácnidos, Miriápodos, Crustáceos, Insectos. 172-183.
  • 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.
  • 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.