Polistes (Epicnemius) occipitalis Ducke, 1904

Brito, Samanta, Oliveira, Marcio L., Carpenter, James M. & Somavilla, Alexandre, 2024, The genus Polistes Latreille, 1802 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) of Brazil: morphological diagnoses, identification key, and geographical distribution, Zootaxa 5496 (4), pp. 509-545 : 531

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5496.4.3

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13617659

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scientific name

Polistes (Epicnemius) occipitalis Ducke, 1904
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Polistes (Epicnemius) occipitalis Ducke, 1904 View in CoL

( Figs 65, 66 View FIGURES 61–68 )

Polistes occipitalis Ducke, 1904: 367 View in CoL (key), 371, ♀.

Diagnosis. Female. Body pigmentation dark brown to black, and lighter metasoma. Wings pigmentation hyaline and matte. Intermediate size, about 20 mm in total length. Clypeus long than it is wider, clypeus covered by short bristles, and medium-sized and deep punctures present only in the apical region, apex pointed, clypeus-eye touching for an extent smaller than width of antennal socket; central region of the gena dilated, much wider than the eyes; occipital carina strong, extending through entire gena; humeri slightly projecting; mesepisternum with short and dense bristles, small and shallow punctation; propodeal concavity widely extended in the center, propodeal striae absent; tergum I longer than wide, with short and dense bristles, weakly punctation; tergum II wider than or as wide as long, with short and dense bristles, weak punctures. Male. Similar to females, except for clypeus much longer than wide; yellow stripes on the legs.

Material examined. 8♀, 2♂ in total. Brazil: Amazonas , 1♂ ( AMNH) , 4♀ ( INPA); Pará , ♀ [Holotype] ( MNHN) , 1♀ ( AMNH) , 1♀ ( MNB) , 1♂ ( MNHN); São Paulo , 1♀ ( MNHN) .

Distribution. Brazil: Amapá, Amazonas, Espírito Santo, Maranhão, Minas Gerais, Pará, Rio de Janeiro, Rondônia, São Paulo, Tocantins; Costa Rica; Panama; Colombia; Guyana; Suriname; French Guiana; Peru; Bolivia.

AMNH

American Museum of Natural History

INPA

Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia

MNHN

Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Eumenidae

Genus

Polistes

Loc

Polistes (Epicnemius) occipitalis Ducke, 1904

Brito, Samanta, Oliveira, Marcio L., Carpenter, James M. & Somavilla, Alexandre 2024
2024
Loc

Polistes occipitalis

Ducke, A. 1904: 367
1904
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