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Leipomeles dorsata (Fabricius, 1804)

Polistes dorsata Fabricius, 1804:281, sex not indicated.America meridionali (Mus. Dom. de Sehestedt, leg. Smidt); Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:214, Type ♀ (UZM, Copenhagen). - As Leipomeles dorsata: - 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); 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).
Leipomeles lamellaria Möbius, 1856:148, Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:214, Type ♀ (depository unknown, ? Hamburg). - Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:214 ( listed as synonym of Leipomeles dorsata (Fabricius, 1804)).
Polybia sulciscutis Cameron, 1912:215, ♀. ♀, British Guiana (Georgetown Museum), Lectotype ♀, examined (BMNH), designated by Richards, 1978Richards, O.W. 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1-567.:214.

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Area distribution map

map of Leipomeles dorsata (Fabricius, 1804)

Distribution

BOLBolivia
 (Richards, 1978)
BRABrazil
 (Richards, 1978 [as Leipomeles lamellaria Möbius, 1856]; Richards, 1978)
COLColombia
 (Richards, 1978)
CRICosta Rica
 (West-Eberhard et al., 1995; Kumar et al., 2009; Valverde et al., 2019)
ECUEcuador
 (Richards, 1978)
GUFFrench Guiana
 (Richards, 1978)
GUYGuyana
 (Cameron, 1912 [as Polybia sulciscutis Cameron, 1912]; Richards, 1978 [as Polybia sulciscutis Cameron, 1912]; Richards, 1978)
PANPanama
 (Richards, 1978)
PERPeru
 (Richards, 1978; Rasmussen & Asenjo, 2009)
SURSuriname
 (Richards, 1978)
ZAFSouth Africa
 (Richards, 1978)

Literature

  • 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.
  • Fabricius, J.C. 1804. Systema Piezatorum secundum Ordines, Genera, Species adiectis Synonymis, Locis, Observationibus, Descriptionibus. Apud Carolum Reichard, Brunsvigae. xiv + 440 + 30 pp.
  • 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.
  • Möbius, A. 1856. Die Nester der geselligen Wespen. Abh. Geb. Naturw. Hamburg 3:117-171.
  • 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.
  • 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.