Polistes (Onerarius) carnifex ( Fabricius, 1775 )

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 : 536-538

publication ID

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

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13617687

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scientific name

Polistes (Onerarius) carnifex ( Fabricius, 1775 )
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Polistes (Onerarius) carnifex ( Fabricius, 1775) View in CoL

( Figs 81, 82 View FIGURES 77–86 )

Vespa carnifex Fabricius, 1775: 365 , ♀, ♂.

Diagnosis. Female. Body pigmentation yellowish to light brown. Wing pigmentation reddish to brown. Very robust size, more than 30 mm in total length. Clypeus slightly wider than long or as long as wide, bristles, in the entire length or only in the lower region, but short bristles at its base becoming long toward the apex, punctures medium-sized, deep present only in the apical region, apex pointed, clypeus-eye in contact for a width smaller than the diameter of the antennal socket or be slightly separated; gena width at midlength equal to or slightly wider than eye; occipital carina strong, extending to middle eye level; humeri slightly projecting; mesepisternum with short and dense bristles, medium and deep punctation small; propodeal concavity widely extended in the center, propodeal striae strong in the center and weak on the sides; tergum I longer than wide, with short and dense bristles, and weak, small, and shallow punctures; tergum II wider or as wide as long, with short and dense bristles, weakly punctate.

Male. Similar to females, except that clypeus is separated from the eye.

Material examined. 20♀, 2♂ in total. Brazil: Alagoas , 1♀ ( AMNH); Mato Grosso , 1♀ ( AMNH) , 13♀ ( NHM); Minas Gerais , 1♀ ( AMNH); Pará , 1♂ ( AMNH); Paraná , 2♀ ( NHM); Rio de Janeiro , 2♀ ( AMNH); Rio Grande do Sul , 1♀ ( NHM) , 1♀ ( CESC); São Paulo , 1♂ ( MZSP) .

Distribution. Brazil: Alagoas, Amapá, Amazonas, Bahia, Espírito Santo, Goiás, Maranhão, Mato Grosso, Minas Gerais, Pará, Paraná, Pernambuco, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Norte, Rio Grande do Sul, Roraima, Santa Catarina, São Paulo; USA; Mexico; Belize; Guatemala; Honduras; Nicaragua; Costa Rica; Panama; Colombia; Guyana; Suriname; Ecuador; Peru; Paraguay; Argentina.

Comments. There are three subspecies; two occur in Brazil: P. carnifex carnifex (Fabricius) and P. carnifex rufipennis Latreille.

AMNH

American Museum of Natural History

NHM

University of Nottingham

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 (Onerarius) carnifex ( Fabricius, 1775 )

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

Vespa carnifex

Fabricius, J. C. F. 1775: 365
1775
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