Polistes (Epicnemius) bequaertianus Willink, 1954

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 : 525

publication ID

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

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13617617

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scientific name

Polistes (Epicnemius) bequaertianus Willink, 1954
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Polistes bequaertiana Willink, 1954: 255 , ♂.

Diagnosis. Female. Body black to brown, metasoma completely brown. Wing pigmentation brownish. Relatively small size, maximum 16 mm in total length. Clypeus long than it is wider, covered by short bristles at its base becoming long toward the apex, and medium-sized and deep punctures present only in the apical region, apex rounded, clypeus-eye touching for an extent smaller than width of antennal socket; central region of the gena smaller than the eyes; occipital carina strong; humeri slightly projecting; mesepisternum with short bristles, small and shallow punctation; 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 or as wide as long, short and dense bristles, weakly punctate. Male. Similar to the females, except for the metasoma brownish, with terga I and II with apical region yellow.

Material examined. 1♀, 2♂ in total. Paraguay: Porto Bertoni, 1♀, 2♂ ( IBNP) .

Distribution. Brazil: Rio de Janeiro; Paraguay; Argentina.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Eumenidae

Genus

Polistes

Loc

Polistes (Epicnemius) bequaertianus Willink, 1954

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

Polistes bequaertiana

Willink, A. 1954: 255
1954
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