Palisotius Richards, 1973
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5496.4.3 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13736669 |
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The subgenus Palisotius Richards, 1973
Palisotius Richards, 1973: 95 , 96, 100, ♀, ♂.
Type species. Polistes major Palisot de Beauvois, 1818 View in CoL , by original designation.
Diagnosis (based on Richards 1973, Somavilla et al. 2021b). Body large, about 25 mm long. Color usually dark yellow with brown marks or completely brown. Tergum I slightly wider than long, abruptly widened in lateral view. Malar space as long as wide or weakly transverse. Clypeus in female touching eye for an extent smaller than diameter of antennal socket; in males, clypeus touching the ventral edge of the eye. Pronotal fovea present. Epicnemial carina, when present, incomplete. Mesepisternal dorsal groove conspicuous, complete. Posterior sternum laterally without tubercle in male. Male genitalia with aedeagus thin, teeth on apical portion intermediate; penis valve dilated, nonbilobed or weakly bilobed; digitus with developed apical process and rounded anteroventral lobe.
Species included. Three species, two of them are in Brazil.
Distribution. Neotropics and Nearctic.
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Palisotius Richards, 1973
Brito, Samanta, Oliveira, Marcio L., Carpenter, James M. & Somavilla, Alexandre 2024 |
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Richards, O. W. 1973: 95 |