Apoica (Apoica) gelida van der Vecht

PICKETT, KURT M. & WENZEL, JOHN W., 2007, Revision and Cladistic Analysis of the Nocturnal Social Wasp Genus, Apoica Lepeletier (Hymenoptera: Vespidae; Polistinae, Epiponini), American Museum Novitates 3562 (1), pp. 1-32 : 24

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/0003-0082(2007)397[1:RACAOT]2.0.CO;2
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03ED87AD-0013-4038-98B2-FD61FF1DFA03
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scientific name	Apoica (Apoica) gelida van der Vecht
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Apoica (Apoica) gelida van der Vecht View in CoL

Apoica pallida View in CoL ; Fox, 1898: 445 [partim].

Apoica pallens View in CoL form C; Richards, 1951, in Richards and Richards, 1951: 156, fig. 24 [partim].

Apoica gelida van der Vecht, 1972: 736 View in CoL , 739, 741, figs. 2 View Fig , 5 View Fig (holotype male, RMNH).

DISTRIBUTION: Brazil: Amazonas, D. F., Goiás, Mato Grosso, Minas Gerais, Pará, Rio de Janeiro; Colombia; French Guiana; Guyana; Peru: Huánuco; Suriname; Trinidad; Venezuela.

MATERIAL EXAMINED: Brazil: Mato Grosso, 12d 50m S, 51d 47m W, 14.IV.1968, O. W. Richards ( BMNH, 12 females); Brazil: Goias, Crystallina ‘‘ Crystalandia’ ’, 9 Oct 68 ( BMNH, 2 females); Trinidad: Siparia, 26.vII.1929, det. Apoica gelida , J.v.d. Vecht, 1971 ( RMNH, 1 PARATYPE female); Trinidad, Mt. St. Benedict, VII-1929, Apoica gelida , J.v.d. Vecht , 1971 ( RMNH, 4 PARATYPE females) .

The dorsal metanota of A. gelida workers are nearly white, while those of the queens are cream colored (discovered by F. B. Noll). This is almost never apparent in pinned specimens, though it is clear in alcohol preserved specimens.