Polistes (Epicnemius) torresae Silveira, 1996

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

publication ID

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

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13617685

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BC87B0-FFAE-FFE2-CCEE-FDBB48C4FB0F

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scientific name

Polistes (Epicnemius) torresae Silveira, 1996
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Polistes (Epicnemius) torresae Silveira, 1996 View in CoL

( Figs 79, 80 View FIGURES 77–86 )

Polistes (Epicnemius) torresae Silveira View in CoL in Carpenter 1996b: 33, new name for Polistes occultus Silveira, 1994 View in CoL (nom. preocc., nec Polistes occultus Kojima, 1988 View in CoL ).

Diagnosis. Female. Body pigmentation black, with a matte appearance and yellow marks on the body, bands in the scutellum, propodeal area, and metanotum. Wings pigmentation hyaline and matte; Intermediate size, about 18 mm in total length. Clypeus long than wider, covered by short bristles at its base becoming long toward the apex, and large and deep punctures in the lower region, apex pointed, clypeus-eye touching for an extent equal to or greater than width of antennal socket; central region of the gena smaller than the eyes; occipital carina strong; humeri slightly projecting; pronotal fovea absent; mesepisternum with short and dense bristles small and shallow punctation; propodeal concavity and striae absent; 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. unknown.

Material examined. 8♀ in total. Brazil: Acre , 2♀ ( MNB); Amazonas , 1♀ ( INPA); Maranhão , 1♀ ( INPA); Pará , 4♀ ( MNB) .

Distribution. Brazil: Acre, Amazonas, Maranhão, Pará, Rondônia.

INPA

Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Eumenidae

Genus

Polistes

Loc

Polistes (Epicnemius) torresae Silveira, 1996

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

Polistes occultus

Silveira 1994
1994
Loc

Polistes occultus

Kojima 1988
1988
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