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Polistes aterrimus Saussure, 1853

Polistes aterrimus Saussure, 1853:73, 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.:192, the location of the type is unknown to me; Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:495, Type ♀ (apparently lost). Replacement name for Polistes aterrimus Saussure, 1853 by 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.:192. - Dalla Torre, 1894Dalla Torre, C.G. 1894. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus, IX. Vespidae (Diploptera). Guilelmi Engelmann, 181. (distribution); Zavattari, 1906Zavattari, E. 1906. Viaggio del Dr. Enrico Festa nel Darien, nell' Ecuador e regioni vicine. Bolletino dei Musei di Zoologia e Anatomia Comparada dela R. Universita di Torino 21 (529):1-22. (distribution); Ducke, 1908Ducke, A. 1908. Beiträge zur Hymenopterenkunde Amerikas. Zeitschrift für Systematische Hymenopterologie und Dipterologie 8:695-700. (distribution); 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); Rasmussen & Asenjo, 2009Rasmussen, C. & A. Asenjo 2009. A checklist to the wasps of Peru (Hymenoptera, Aculeata). ZooKeys 15:1-78. (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); 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).

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Area distribution map

map of Polistes aterrimus Saussure, 1853

Distribution

BOLBolivia
 (Richards, 1978)
BRABrazil
 (Dalla Torre, 1894; Richards, 1978)
COLColombia
 (Richards, 1978)
CRICosta Rica
 (West-Eberhard et al., 1995; Kumar et al., 2009; Valverde et al., 2019)
ECUEcuador
 (Zavattari, 1906; Ducke, 1908; Richards, 1978)
PERPeru
 (Richards, 1978; Rasmussen & Asenjo, 2009; Somavilla et al., 2018)
VENVenezuela
 (Richards, 1978)

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.
  • Dalla Torre, C.G. 1894. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus, IX. Vespidae (Diploptera). Guilelmi Engelmann, 181.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Zavattari, E. 1906. Viaggio del Dr. Enrico Festa nel Darien, nell' Ecuador e regioni vicine. Bolletino dei Musei di Zoologia e Anatomia Comparada dela R. Universita di Torino 21 (529):1-22.