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Polistes canadensis canadensis (Linnaeus, 1758)

Vespa canadensis Linnaeus, 1758:574, no. Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:492, Type, sex not stated (lost). - As Polistes canadensis: - Smith, 1862Smith, 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. (distribution); Cresson, 1872Cresson, E.T. 1872. Hymenoptera Texana. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 4:153-292. (distribution); Ashmead, 1894Ashmead, W.H. 1894. Notes on cotton insects found in Mississippi. Insect Life 7 (3):240-247. (distribution); Lewis, 1897Lewis, B.S. 1897. Vespinae of the United States and Canada. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 24 (2):169-192, 1 pl. (distribution); Schrottky, 1902Schrottky, C. 1902. Neue argentinische Hymenopteren. An. Mus. Buenos Aires. 7:91-117. (distribution); Cameron, 1912Cameron, P. 1912. The Hymenoptera of the Georgetown Museum. Part III. Timehri 3rd ser. (2):207-231. (distribution); Rohwer, 1913Rohwer, S.A. 1913. Results of the Yale Peruvian Expedition of 1911. Hymenoptera, Superfamilies Vespoidea and Sphecoidea. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 44:439-454. (distribution); Bequaert, 1929Bequaert, J.C. 1929. The folded-winged wasps of the Bermudas, with some preliminary remarks on insular wasp faunae. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 22 (4):555-582. (distribution); Cockerell, 1949Cockerell, T.D.A. 1949. Bees from Central America, principally Honduras. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 98 (No. 3233):429-490. (distribution); Callan, 1950Callan, E.Mc C. 1950. Observations on tropical wasps in Trinidad. Eighth International Congress of Entomology. Stockholm :204-206. (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); 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); Ruíz-Cancino et al., 2005Ruíz-Cancino, E., J.M. Coronado-Blanco & J.V. Horta Vega 2005. Conocimiento actual de las avispas depredadoras (Hymenoptera) en Tamaulipas, México. In: Lozano, L. B., A.C. Sandoval, J.V.H. Vega & J.G. Jiménez (Ed.). Biodiversidad tamaulipeca: vol. 1. 164-170. (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); Ruíz-Cancino et al., 2010Ruíz-Cancino, E., D.R. Kasparyan, J.M. Coronado-Blanco, S.N. Myartseva, V.A. Trjapitzin, S.G. Hernández Aguilar & J. García Jiménez 2010. Himenópteros de la Reserva “El Cielo”, Tamaulipas, México. Dugesiana 17 (1):53-71. (distribution); Silvestre et al., 2014Silvestre, R., M.F. Demétrio, B.M. Trad, F. Varussa & O. Lima 2014. Diversity and distribution of Hymenoptera Aculeata in Midwestern Brazilian dry forests. In: Greer, F.E. (Ed.). Dry Forests. 29-80. (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). - As Polistes canadensis canadensis: - 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); Maes, 1999 1999. Catalogo de los insectos y artropodos terrestres de Nicaragua. Volumen III. León, Nicaragua. 1170-1898. (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); 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).
Vespa crabro marribous Linnaeus, 1758 - Maes, 1999 1999. Catalogo de los insectos y artropodos terrestres de Nicaragua. Volumen III. León, Nicaragua. 1170-1898.:1754 ( listed as synonym of Polistes canadensis canadensis (Linnaeus, 1758)).
Polistes unicolor Lepeletier, 1836:520,Cayenne (Musée de M. Serville, leg. le docteur Doumere); Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:492, Type ♀ (probably MIZSU, Turin). - Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:492 ( listed as synonym of Polistes canadensis canadensis (Linnaeus, 1758)); Maes, 1999 1999. Catalogo de los insectos y artropodos terrestres de Nicaragua. Volumen III. León, Nicaragua. 1170-1898.:1754 ( listed as synonym of Polistes canadensis canadensis (Linnaeus, 1758)).
Polistes urceolata Klug in Schomburgk, 1848:590 - Schomburgk, 1848Schomburgk, R. 1848. Reisen in Britisch-Guiana in den Jahren 1840-1844. Dritter Theil. Verlagsbuchhandlung von J. J. Webre, Leipzig. (distribution). - As Polistes urceola: - Maes, 1999 1999. Catalogo de los insectos y artropodos terrestres de Nicaragua. Volumen III. León, Nicaragua. 1170-1898.:1754 ( listed as synonym of Polistes canadensis canadensis (Linnaeus, 1758)). - As Polistes urceolicus: - Dalla Torre, 1894Dalla Torre, C.G. 1894. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus, IX. Vespidae (Diploptera). Guilelmi Engelmann, 181. (distribution). - As Polistes urceolicus: - Dalla Torre, 1894Dalla Torre, C.G. 1894. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus, IX. Vespidae (Diploptera). Guilelmi Engelmann, 181. (distribution).
Polistes panamensis Holmgren, 1868:439, sex not indicated.Panama, Lectotype ♀, examined (NR, Stockholm), designated by Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:492. - Dalla Torre, 1894Dalla Torre, C.G. 1894. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus, IX. Vespidae (Diploptera). Guilelmi Engelmann, 181. (distribution); Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:492 ( listed as synonym of Polistes canadensis canadensis (Linnaeus, 1758)); Maes, 1999 1999. Catalogo de los insectos y artropodos terrestres de Nicaragua. Volumen III. León, Nicaragua. 1170-1898.:1754 ( listed as synonym of Polistes canadensis canadensis (Linnaeus, 1758)). - As Polistes canadensis panamensis: - 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).

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Area distribution map

map of Polistes canadensis canadensis (Linnaeus, 1758)

Distribution

ARGArgentina
 (Schrottky, 1902; Richards, 1978; Maes, 1999)
BOLBolivia
 (Bequaert, 1940; Richards, 1978; Krombein et al., 1979; Maes, 1999)
BRABrazil
 (Smith, 1862; Bequaert, 1940; Richards, 1978; Maes, 1999; Silveira et al., 2008; Silvestre et al., 2014; Somavilla et al., 2018)
COLColombia
 (Bequaert, 1940 [as Polistes canadensis panamensis Holmgren, 1868]; Bequaert, 1940; Richards, 1978; Maes, 1999)
CRICosta Rica
 (Richards, 1978; Starr, 1987; West-Eberhard et al., 1995; Maes, 1999; Valverde et al., 2019)
GTMGuatemala
 (Bequaert, 1940; Richards, 1978; Maes, 1999; Carpenter et al., 2012)
GUFFrench Guiana
 (Lepeletier, 1836 [as Polistes unicolor Lepeletier, 1836]; Richards, 1978 [as Polistes unicolor Lepeletier, 1836]; Richards, 1978; Maes, 1999)
GUYGuyana
 (Schomburgk, 1848 [as Polistes urceolata Klug in Schomburgk, 1848]; Dalla Torre, 1894 [as Polistes urceolicus Klug in Schomburgk, 1848]; Cameron, 1912; Bequaert, 1940; Richards, 1978; Maes, 1999)
HNDHonduras
 (Bequaert, 1940; Cockerell, 1949; Richards, 1978; Maes, 1999)
MEX-GueMexico - Guerrero
 (Richards, 1978; Ruíz-Cancino et al., 2010)
MEX-HidMexico - Hidalgo
 (Richards, 1978; Ruíz-Cancino et al., 2010)
MEX-JalMexico - Jalisco
 (Richards, 1978; Ruíz-Cancino et al., 2010)
MEX-MdOMexico - Michoacán
 (Richards, 1978; Ruíz-Cancino et al., 2010)
MEX-NayMexico - Nayarit
 (Richards, 1978; Ruíz-Cancino et al., 2010)
MEX-OaxMexico - Oaxaca
 (Richards, 1978; Somavilla et al., 2018)
MEX-SonMexico - Sonora
 (Bequaert, 1940; Richards, 1978; Ruíz-Cancino et al., 2010)
MEX-TabMexico - Tabasco
 (Richards, 1978; Ruíz-Cancino et al., 2010)
MEX-TamMexico - Tamaulipas
 (Richards, 1978; Ruíz-Cancino et al., 2005; Ruíz-Cancino et al., 2010)
MEX-VdIMexico - Veracruz
 (Bequaert, 1940; Richards, 1978; Ruíz-Cancino et al., 2010)
NICNicaragua
 (Maes, 1999)
PANPanama
 (Smith, 1862; Holmgren, 1868 [as Polistes panamensis Holmgren, 1868]; Dalla Torre, 1894 [as Polistes panamensis Holmgren, 1868]; Rohwer, 1913; Bequaert, 1940 [as Polistes canadensis panamensis Holmgren, 1868]; Richards, 1978 [as Polistes panamensis Holmgren, 1868]; Richards, 1978; Maes, 1999)
PERPeru
 (Bequaert, 1940; Richards, 1978; Krombein et al., 1979; Maes, 1999; Rasmussen & Asenjo, 2009)
PRYParaguay
 (Bequaert, 1940; Richards, 1978; Krombein et al., 1979; Maes, 1999; Somavilla et al., 2018)
SLVEl Salvador
 (Richards, 1978; Maes, 1999)
SURSuriname
 (Richards, 1978; Maes, 1999)
TTOTrinidad and Tobago
 (Bequaert, 1929; Bequaert, 1940; Callan, 1950; Maes, 1999)
USAUnited States
 (Maes, 1999)
USA-AZUnited States - Arizona
 (Richards, 1978; Krombein et al., 1979; Ruíz-Cancino et al., 2010)
USA-DCUnited States - Washington D.C.
 (Lewis, 1897)
USA-FLUnited States - Florida
 (Lewis, 1897)
USA-MSUnited States - Mississippi
 (Ashmead, 1894; Lewis, 1897)
USA-TXUnited States - Texas
 (Cresson, 1872; Lewis, 1897)
VENVenezuela
 (Bequaert, 1940; Richards, 1978; Maes, 1999)

Literature

  • Ashmead, W.H. 1894. Notes on cotton insects found in Mississippi. Insect Life 7 (3):240-247.
  • Bequaert, J.C. 1929. The folded-winged wasps of the Bermudas, with some preliminary remarks on insular wasp faunae. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 22 (4):555-582.
  • 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.
  • Callan, E.Mc C. 1950. Observations on tropical wasps in Trinidad. Eighth International Congress of Entomology. Stockholm :204-206.
  • Cameron, P. 1912. The Hymenoptera of the Georgetown Museum. Part III. Timehri 3rd ser. (2):207-231.
  • 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.
  • Cockerell, T.D.A. 1949. Bees from Central America, principally Honduras. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 98 (No. 3233):429-490.
  • Cresson, E.T. 1872. Hymenoptera Texana. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 4:153-292.
  • Dalla Torre, C.G. 1894. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus, IX. Vespidae (Diploptera). Guilelmi Engelmann, 181.
  • Holmgren 1868. Hymenoptera. Species novas descripsit. Kongliga Svenska Fregatten Eugenies 2:391-442.
  • 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.
  • Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau, A. 1836. Histoire Naturelles des Insectes. Hyménoptères. Vol. 1. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris. 1-547.
  • Lewis, B.S. 1897. Vespinae of the United States and Canada. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 24 (2):169-192, 1 pl.
  • Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae. Ed. 10, Vol. 1 Holmiae. :824 pp.
  • 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.
  • Rohwer, S.A. 1913. Results of the Yale Peruvian Expedition of 1911. Hymenoptera, Superfamilies Vespoidea and Sphecoidea. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 44:439-454.
  • Ruíz-Cancino, E., D.R. Kasparyan, J.M. Coronado-Blanco, S.N. Myartseva, V.A. Trjapitzin, S.G. Hernández Aguilar & J. García Jiménez 2010. Himenópteros de la Reserva “El Cielo”, Tamaulipas, México. Dugesiana 17 (1):53-71.
  • Ruíz-Cancino, E., J.M. Coronado-Blanco & J.V. Horta Vega 2005. Conocimiento actual de las avispas depredadoras (Hymenoptera) en Tamaulipas, México. In: Lozano, L. B., A.C. Sandoval, J.V.H. Vega & J.G. Jiménez (Ed.). Biodiversidad tamaulipeca: vol. 1. 164-170.
  • Schomburgk, R. 1848. Reisen in Britisch-Guiana in den Jahren 1840-1844. Dritter Theil. Verlagsbuchhandlung von J. J. Webre, Leipzig.
  • Schrottky, C. 1902. Neue argentinische Hymenopteren. An. Mus. Buenos Aires. 7:91-117.
  • 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.
  • Silvestre, R., M.F. Demétrio, B.M. Trad, F. Varussa & O. Lima 2014. Diversity and distribution of Hymenoptera Aculeata in Midwestern Brazilian dry forests. In: Greer, F.E. (Ed.). Dry Forests. 29-80.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.