Polistes (Epicnemius) subsericeus 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 : 535

publication ID

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

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13617677

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scientific name

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

( Figs 73, 74 View FIGURES 69–76 )

Polistes subsericeus de Saussure, 1854: 100 View in CoL , ♂.

Diagnosis. Female. Body pigmentation dark brown to black, with lighter mesosoma, yellow apical band on tergum I, yellow bands on propodeal area. Wings pigmentation reddish to brown. Intermediate size, about 20 mm in total length. Clypeus long than wider, covered by short bristles at its base becoming long toward the apex, and large sized deep punctures present only in the apical region, pointed apex, 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, extending through entire gena; humeri slightly projecting; dorsal groove incomplete; mesepisternum with short and dense bristles, small and shallow punctation; propodeal concavity absent, propodeal striae strong along entire length; tergum I longer than wide, with short and dense bristles and weak, small, and shallow punctures; tergum II wider or as wide as long, short and dense bristles, weakly punctate. Male. Similar to females, except for the contact between the clypeus and the eye for a distance smaller than the diameter of the antennal socket, central region of the gena with width smaller than the eye.

Material examined. 30♀, 14♂ in total. Brazil: Bahia , 1♀ ( MNB) , 1♂ ( NHM); Brasília , 1♀, 1♂ ( NHM); Mato Grosso , 1♀ ( INPA) , 1♀ ( MZSP) , 19♀, 9♂ ( NHM); Minas Gerais , 1♀ ( MNHN); Rio de Janeiro , 1♀ [Lectotype] ( MNHN); Roraima , 1♀ ( AMNH); Santa Catarina , 1♀ ( MNB); São Paulo , 1♂ ( AMNH) , 1♀ ( MNHN) , 1♂ ( MZSP) , 1♀, 1♂ ( NHM) .

Distribution. Brazil: Amapá, Amazonas, Bahia, Distrito Federal, Maranhão, Mato Grosso, Minas Gerais, Pará, Rio de Janeiro, Roraima, Santa São Paulo; Colombia; Venezuela; Guyana; Suriname; French Guiana; Bolivia; Paraguay.

NHM

University of Nottingham

INPA

Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia

MZSP

Sao Paulo, Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de Sao Paulo

MNHN

Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle

AMNH

American Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Eumenidae

Genus

Polistes

Loc

Polistes (Epicnemius) subsericeus de Saussure, 1854

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

Polistes subsericeus

de Saussure 1854: 100
1854
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