Polistes (Epicnemius) angulinus Richards, 1951

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 : 523

publication ID

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

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13617613

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scientific name

Polistes (Epicnemius) angulinus Richards, 1951
status

 

Polistes (Epicnemius) angulinus Richards, 1951 View in CoL

( Figs 39, 40 View FIGURES 37–44 )

Polistes erythrogaster var. angulinus Richards View in CoL in Richards & Richards, 1951: 92, ♀.

Diagnosis.Female. Body dark brown to black, with the mesepisternum lighter than the body color.Wing pigmentation hyaline and matte. Relatively small size, maximum 15 mm in total length. Clypeus longer than wide, covered by short bristles at its base becoming long toward the apex, with medium-sized and deep punctures, present only in the apical region; apex rounded, 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 to middle of the eye; humeri slightly projecting; mesepisternum with short bristles, punctation small and shallow; propodeal concavity and striae absent; tergum I longer than wide, bristles short and dense, punctures strong, medium sized, and deep; tergum II as wide as long or wider than long, with short bristles, weakly punctate. Male. Similar to females, except for the size, with 17 mm in total length.

Material examined. 1♀, 1♂ in total. Brazil: Rondônia , 1♀, 1♂ ( INPA) .

Distribution. Brazil: Amazonas, Rondônia; Guyana.

INPA

Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Eumenidae

Genus

Polistes

Loc

Polistes (Epicnemius) angulinus Richards, 1951

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

Polistes erythrogaster var. angulinus

Richards, O. W. & Richards, M. J. 1951: 92
1951
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