Polybia

Polybia
Polybia scutellaris
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Suborder: Apocrita
Family: Vespidae
Subfamily: Polistinae
Genus: Polybia
Lepeletier, 1836 [1]
Species

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Polybia is a genus of eusocial wasps from South America (Brazil, Argentina). Some make honey that was eaten by native people and it is still collected by some.

Species

  • Polybia aequatorialis Zavattari, 1906
  • Polybia affinis Buysson, 1908
  • Polybia anglica Cockerell, 1921
  • Polybia barbouri Bequard, 1943
  • Polybia batesi Richards, 1978
  • Polybia belemensis Richards, 1970
  • Polybia bicytarella Richards, 1951
  • Polybia bifasciata Saussure, 1854
  • Polybia bistriata (Fabricius, 1804)
  • Polybia brunnea (Curtis 1844)
  • Polybia brunneiceps Cameron, 1912
  • Polybia catillifex Moebius, 1856
  • Polybia chrysothorax (Lichtenstein)
  • Polybia depressa (Ducke, 1905)
  • Polybia diguetana Buysson, 1905
  • Polybia dimidiata (Olivier, 1791)
  • Polybia dimorpha Richards, 1978
  • Polybia divisoria Richards, 1978
  • Polybia eberhardae Cooper, 1993
  • Polybia emaciata Lucas, 1879
  • Polybia erythrothoraxla Richards, 1978
  • Polybia fastidiosuscula Saussure, 1854
  • Polybia ficaria Richards, 1978
  • Polybia flavifrons Smith, 1857
  • Polybia flavitincta Fox 1898
  • Polybia fulvicauda Cameron, 1912
  • Polybia furnaria Ihering 1904
  • Polybia gorytoides Fox 1898
  • Polybia ignobilis (Haliday 1836)
  • Polybia incerta Ducke 1907
  • Polybia invertita Giordani Soika, 1965
  • Polybia jurinei Saussure, 1854
  • Polybia juruana Ihering, 1904
  • Polybia laboriosa Saussure, 1853
  • Polybia liliacea (Fabricius, 1804)
  • Polybia luctuosus Smith, 1858
  • Polybia lugubris Saussure, 1854
  • Polybia micans Ducke 1904
  • Polybia minarum Ducke 1906
  • Polybia nausica Richards, 1951
  • Polybia nidulatrix Bequard, 1933
  • Polybia nigriceps Zavattari, 1906
  • Polybia nigrina Richards, 1978
  • Polybia oblita Cockerell, 1921
  • Polybia occidentalis (Olivier, 1791)
  • Polybia parvula
  • Polybia parvulina Richards, 1970
  • Polybia paulista Ihering, 1896
  • Polybia platycephala Richards, 1951
  • Polybia plebeja Saussure, 1867
  • Polybia procellosa Zavattari 1906
  • Polybia pseudospilonota Giordani Soika, 1965
  • Polybia punctata Buysson, 1908
  • Polybia quadricincta Saussure, 1854
  • Polybia raui Bequard, 1933
  • Polybia rejecta (Fabricius, 1798)
  • Polybia richardsi Cooper, 1993
  • Polybia ruficeps Schrottky, 1902
  • Polybia rufitarsis Ducke 1904
  • Polybia scrobalis Richards, 1970
  • Polybia scutellaris (White, 1841)
  • Polybia selvana Carpenter, 2002
  • Polybia sericea (Olivier, 1792)
  • Polybia signata Ducke 1910
  • Polybia simillima Smith 1862
  • Polybia singularis Ducke 1909
  • Polybia spilonota Cameron 1904
  • Polybia spinifex Richards, 1978
  • Polybia striata (Fabricius, 1787)
  • Polybia sulciscutis Cameron, 1912
  • Polybia tinctipennis Fox 1898
  • Polybia uruguayensis Giordani Soika, 1965
  • Polybia velutina Ducke 1907

References

  1. ↑ Orlando Tobias Silveira (2008). "Phylogeny of wasps of the genus Mischocyttarus de Saussure (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Polistinae)". Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 52 (4): 510–549. doi:10.1590/S0085-56262008000400004.
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