Polistes (Epicnemius) cinerascens de Saussure, 1854

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 : 526

publication ID

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

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13617622

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BC87B0-FFA4-FFE8-CCEE-FDDF4A0DFA90

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scientific name

Polistes (Epicnemius) cinerascens de Saussure, 1854
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Polistes (Epicnemius) cinerascens de Saussure, 1854 View in CoL

( Figs 49, 50 View FIGURES 45–52 )

Polistes cinerascens de Saussure, 1854: 99 View in CoL , ♀.

Diagnosis. Female. Body black, with yellow apical bands on the terga, and there may be reduced marks on the propodeum. Wings pigmentation yellowish to faintly brown or reddish to brown. Relatively small size, maximum 16 mm in total length. Clypeus slightly wider than it is long or as long as wide, covered by short bristles at its base becoming long toward the apex, medium-sized and deep punctures, present throughout the clypeus, apex pointed, clypeus-eye touching for an extent equal to or greater than width of antennal socket; gena width at midlength equal to or slightly wider than eye; occipital carina strong; humeri slightly projecting; mesepisternum with short and dense bristles, punctation small and shallow; propodeal concavity and striae absent; tergum I longer than wide, with short and dense bristles, and strong, medium sized, and deep punctures; tergum II wider than or as wide as long; with short and dense bristles, with corrugation. Male. Similar to females, except for the occipital carina extended along the entire length of the gena, propodeum with fine striae.

Material examined. 54♀, 3♂ in total. Brazil: Bahia , 1♀ ( MNB); Goiás , 2♀ ( MNHN); Minas Gerais , ♀ [Lectotype] ( MNHN); Paraná , 10♀ ( NHM); Rio de Janeiro , 1♀, 1♂ ( AMNH) , 1♀ ( MNHN) , 1♀ ( MNB); Rio Grande do Sul , 3♀ ( AMNH) , 2♀ ( MNHN) , 13♀ ( NHM) , 11♀, 1♂ ( CESC); Santa Catarina , 3♀ ( AMNH); São Paulo , 2♀, 1♂ ( AMNH) , 1♀ ( MNHN) , 2♀ ( MZSP)

Distribution. Brazil: Alagoas, Bahia, Ceará, Espírito Santo, Goiás, Mato Grosso, Minas Gerais, Pará, Paraná, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, São Paulo, Tocantins; Venezuela; Ecuador; Bolivia; Paraguay; Argentina; Uruguay.

MNHN

Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle

NHM

University of Nottingham

AMNH

American Museum of Natural History

MZSP

Sao Paulo, Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de Sao Paulo

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Eumenidae

Genus

Polistes

Loc

Polistes (Epicnemius) cinerascens de Saussure, 1854

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

Polistes cinerascens

de Saussure 1854: 99
1854
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