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Mischocyttarus melanarius (Cameron, 1906)

Polybia melanaria Cameron, 1906:153, ♀. ♀, Belize (Prof. C.F. Baker, leg. J.D. Johnson); Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:280, Holotype ♀, examined (BMNH). Synonymized with Mischocyttarus labiatus (Fabricius, 1804) by Ducke, 1908Ducke, A. 1908. Beiträge zur Hymenopterenkunde Amerikas. Zeitschrift für Systematische Hymenopterologie und Dipterologie 8:695-700.:698. Synonymized with Mischocyttarus labiatus (Fabricius, 1804) by Meade-Waldo, 1911Meade-Waldo, G. 1911. New species of Diploptera in the collection of the British Museum. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 8: v. 7:98-113.:100. - Ducke, 1908Ducke, A. 1908. Beiträge zur Hymenopterenkunde Amerikas. Zeitschrift für Systematische Hymenopterologie und Dipterologie 8:695-700. (distribution). - As Mischocyttarus melanarius: - Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567. (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); 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); 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); 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).
Megacanthopus longipetiolatus Cameron, 1912:218, ♀. ♀, Costa Rica (Georgetown Museum); Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:280, Holotype ♂, examined (BMNH). - Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:280 ( listed as synonym of Mischocyttarus melanarius (Cameron, 1906)); Maes, 1999 1999. Catalogo de los insectos y artropodos terrestres de Nicaragua. Volumen III. León, Nicaragua. 1170-1898.:1757 ( listed as synonym of Mischocyttarus melanarius (Cameron, 1906)). - As Mischocyttarus longipetiolatus: - Meade-Waldo & Morley, 1914Meade-Waldo, G. & C. Morley 1914. Notes and synonymy of Hymenoptera in the collection of the British Museum. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 8: v. 14:402-410. (distribution).
Mischocyttarus angustesulcatus Zikán, 1949:44, Lectotype ♂, examined (Inst. O. Cruz), designated by Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:280. - Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:280 ( listed as synonym of Mischocyttarus melanarius (Cameron, 1906)); Maes, 1999 1999. Catalogo de los insectos y artropodos terrestres de Nicaragua. Volumen III. León, Nicaragua. 1170-1898.:1757 ( listed as synonym of Mischocyttarus melanarius (Cameron, 1906)).

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Area distribution map

map of Mischocyttarus melanarius (Cameron, 1906)

Distribution

BLZBelize
 (Cameron, 1906; Ducke, 1908; Richards, 1978; Richards, 1978 [as Megacanthopus longipetiolatus Cameron, 1912]; Richards, 1978; Maes, 1999)
CRICosta Rica
 (Cameron, 1912 [as Megacanthopus longipetiolatus Cameron, 1912]; Richards, 1978; Starr, 1987; West-Eberhard et al., 1995; Maes, 1999; Kumar et al., 2009; Valverde et al., 2019)
GTMGuatemala
 (Richards, 1978; Maes, 1999; Carpenter et al., 2012)
GUYGuyana
 (Meade-Waldo & Morley, 1914 [as Mischocyttarus longipetiolatus (Cameron, 1912)])
HNDHonduras
 (Richards, 1978 [as Mischocyttarus angustesulcatus Zikán, 1949]; Richards, 1978; Maes, 1999)
MEXMexico
 (Maes, 1999)
MEX-JalMexico - Jalisco
 (Richards, 1978)
MEX-MorMexico - Morelos
 (Richards, 1978)
MEX-TabMexico - Tabasco
 (Richards, 1978)
MEX-VdIMexico - Veracruz
 (Richards, 1978)
NICNicaragua
 (Ducke, 1908; Maes, 1999)
PANPanama
 (Richards, 1978; Maes, 1999)

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 Vespidae from Belize. Invertebrata Pacifica 1:150-153.
  • Cameron, P. 1912. The Hymenoptera of the Georgetown Museum. Part III. Timehri: The Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of British Guiana 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.
  • du Buysson, R. & T.A. Marshall 1892. Voyage de M. E. Simon au Venezuela (Décembre 1887 - Avril 1888). Annales de la Société Entomoloqique de France 61:53-76, pls. 3-4.
  • Ducke, A. 1908. Beiträge zur Hymenopterenkunde Amerikas. Zeitschrift für Systematische Hymenopterologie und Dipterologie 8:695-700.
  • 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.
  • 1999. Catalogo de los insectos y artropodos terrestres de Nicaragua. Volumen III. León, Nicaragua. 1170-1898.
  • Meade-Waldo, G. 1911. New species of Diploptera in the collection of the British Museum. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 8: v. 7:98-113.
  • Meade-Waldo, G. & C. Morley 1914. Notes and synonymy of Hymenoptera in the collection of the British Museum. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 8: v. 14:402-410.
  • 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.
  • Smith, F. 1857. Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part V. Vespidae. London. 147 pp.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Zikán, J.F. 1949. O genero Mischocyttarus Saussure (Hymenoptera, Vespidae), con a descrição de 82 especies novas. Boln Parq. nac. Italiaia 1:1-251.