Polistes (Palisotius) major Palisot de Beauvois, 1818

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 : 538-539

publication ID

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

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13617689

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BC87B0-FFA8-FFE7-CCEE-FA384A77FE3C

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scientific name

Polistes (Palisotius) major Palisot de Beauvois, 1818
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Polistes (Palisotius) major Palisot de Beauvois, 1818 View in CoL

( Figs 83, 84 View FIGURES 77–86 )

Polistes major Palisot de Beauvois, 1818: 206 View in CoL , ♀, ♂.

Diagnosis. Female. Body pigmentation yellow or dark brown, when yellow it has dark brown spots on the bases of the terga and legs. Wings pigmentation reddish to brown; bristles evident on the first two thirds. Robust size, about 30 mm in total length. Clypeus long than it is wider, bristles in the entire length or only in the lower region, punctures medium-sized, deep present only in the apical region, pointed apex, clypeus-eye touching for an extent smaller than width of antennal socket; gena width at midlength equal to or slightly wider than eye; 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 strong, developed at the most to propodeal margins, sometimes weak on the sides; 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; with short and dense bristles, weakly punctate. Male. Similar to the females, except for the contact between the clypeus and the eye, with a width equal to or greater than the diameter of the antennal socket; clypeus with rounded apex.

Material examined. 13♀, 1♂ in total. Brazil: Mato Grosso , 1♀ ( NHM); Rio de Janeiro , 2♀ ( MNB) , 10♀, 1♂ ( MNHN) .

Distribution. Brazil: Amazonas, Espírito Santo, Mato Grosso, Pará, Paraná, Rio de Janeiro; São Paulo; USA; Mexico; Nicaragua; Honduras; Guatemala; Costa Rica; Cuba; El Salvador; Bahamas; Dominican Republic; Puerto Rico; Jamaica; Trinidad; Colombia; Venezuela; French Guiana; Ecuador; Paraguay.

Comments. There are four subspecies; the nominotypical one is found in Brazil: P. major major Palisot de Beauvois.

NHM

University of Nottingham

MNHN

Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Eumenidae

Genus

Polistes

Loc

Polistes (Palisotius) major Palisot de Beauvois, 1818

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

Polistes major

Palisot de Beauvois 1818: 206
1818
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