Abstract
A taxonomic review of the P. sedula species-group is presented. New diagnostic characters are described and all species redescribed. The male genitalia of P. sedula (de Saussure) and P. weyrauchi Bequaert are described and drawn. New collection records and a new identification key for the species-group are given.
References
Almeida, M.C. & Castro, R.M.V. (1991) Polistinae (Vespidae, Hymenoptera) do Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná (Curitiba, Brasil) descritos e identificados por O.W. Richards. Acta Biologica do Paraná, 20, 41–52.
Andena, S.R., Noll, F.B., Carpenter, J.M. & Zucchi, R. (2007) Phylogenetic Analysis of the Neotropical Pseudopolybia de Saussure, 1863, with description of the male genitalia of Pseudopolybia vespiceps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Epiponini). American Museum Novitates, 3586, 1–11.
https://doi.org/10.1206/0003-0082(2007)3586[1:PAOTNP]2.0.CO;2Bequaert, J. (1938) A new Charterginus from Costa Rica, with notes on Charterginus, Pseudochartergus, Pseudopolybia, Epipona and Tatua (Hymenoptera, Vespidae). Revista de Entomologia, 9, 99–117.
Bequaert, J.C. (1944a) A revision of Protopolybia Ducke, a Genus of Neotropical Social Wasps (Hymenoptera, Vespidae). Revista de Entomologia, 15, 97–134.
Bequaert, J.C. (1944b) The social Vespidae of the Guianas, particularly of British Guiana. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, 94, 249–304.
Bequaert, J.C. (1949 [1948]) The Vespidae of Venezuela. Boletim de Entomologia Venezolana, 7 (3–4), 123–140.
Bertoni, A.W. (1918) Catálogo de los véspidos sociales y solitarios del Paraguay. Anales Científicos Paraguayos, 2 (3), 203–208.
Cameron, P. (1906) Descriptions of new species of neotropical Vespidae. Zeitschrift fur systematische Hymenopterologie und Dipterologie, 6, 380–386.
Cameron, P. (1907) On some north American species of Chartergus. Invertebrata Pacifica, 181, 184.
Carpenter, J.M. (1999) Taxonomic notes on paper wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Polistinae). American Museum Novitates, 3259, 1–44.
Carpenter, J.M. & Marques, O.M. (2001) Contribuição ao Estudo dos Vespídeos do Brasil. Série Publicações Digitais 3. Universidade Federal da Bahia, Departamento de Fitotecnia. [CD]
Carpenter, J.M. & Mateus, S. (2004) Males of Nectarinella Bequaert (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Polistinae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia, 48, 297–302.
https://doi.org/10.1590/S0085-56262004000300001Carpenter, J.M. & Van der Vecht, J. (1991) A study of the Vespidae described by William J. Fox (Insecta: Hymenoptera), with assessment of taxonomic implications. Annals of the Carnegie Museum, 60, 211–241.
Carpenter, J.M. & Wenzel, J.W. (1990 [1989]) Synonymy of the genera Protopolybia and Pseudochartergus (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Polistinae). Psyche, 96, 177–186.
https://doi.org/10.1155/1989/82471Dalla Torre, K.W. (1894) Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque Descriptorum Systematicus et Synonymicus 9: Vespidae (Diploptera). ix+181 pp. Lipsiae, Sumptibus Guilelmi Eugelmann MDCCCXCIV.
Dalla Torre, K.W. (1904) Vespidae. Genera Insectorum, 19, 1–108.
Ducke, A. (1905) Nouvelles contributions a la connaissance des Vespides sociaux de l'Amerique du Sud. Revue d’Entomologie, 24, 1–24.
Ducke, A. (1907) Novas contribuições para o conhecimento das vespas sociaes (Vespidae sociales) da região neotropical. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, 5, 152–199.
Ducke, A. (1907 [1908]) Contribution à la connaissance de la faune hyménoptérologique du nord-est du Brésil. Revue d’Entomologie, 26, 73–96.
Ducke, A. (1908) Contribution à la connaissance de la faune hyménoptèrologique du nord-est du Brésil. II. Hyménoptères récoltés dans l'Etat de Ceará en 1908. Revue d’Entomologie, 27, 57–87.
Ducke, A. (1910) Révision des guêpes sociales polygames d'Amérique. Annales Historico Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici, 8, 449–544.
Ducke, A. (1914) Über Phylogenie und Klassifikation der sozialen Vespiden. Zoologische Jahrbucher. Abteilung fur Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere, 36, 303–330.
Ducke, A. (1918) Catálogo das vespas sociaes do Brazil. Revista do Museu Paulista, 10, 314–374.
Evenhuis, N.L. (2007) Abbreviations for insect and spider collections of the world. Hawaii Biological Survey, Honolulu. Available from: http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/codens/codens-inst.html (accessed 10 march 2017)
Fonseca, J.P. (1926) Lista dos ninhos de vespas sociaes do Brasil representados nas collecções do Museu Paulista. Revista do Museu Paulista, 14, 169–178.
Fox, W.J. (1898) Contributions to a knowledge of the Hymenoptera of Brazil, N° 5 Vespidae. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1898, 445–460.
Garcete-Barrett, B.R. (1999) Guía ilustrada de las avispas sociales del Paraguay (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Polistinae). The Natural History Museum, London, 44 pp.
Gribodo, G. (1892 [“1891”]) Contribuzioni imenotterologiche. Sopra alcune specie nuove o poco conosciute di Imenotteri Diplotteri. Nota IV. Bullettino della Società entomologica italiana, 23 (3–4), 242–300.
Ihering, R. von. (1903) Contribution à l’étude des Vespides de l’Amérique du Sud. Annales de la Société entomologique de France, 72, 144–155.
Ihering, R. von. (1904) As vespas sociaes do Brasil. Revista do Museu Paulista, 6, 97–309
Machado, V.L.L. (1977) Aspectos da biologia de Protopolybia pumila (de Saussure, 1863) (Hymenoptera, Vespidae). Revista Brasileira de Biologia, 37 (4), 771–784.
Machado, V.L.L. (1982) Plants which supply “hair” material for nest building of Protopolybia sedula (Saussure, 1894). In: Jaisson, P. (Ed.), Social insects in tropics. University Paris-Nord, Paris, pp.189–192.
Machado, V.L.L. & Rodrigues, V.M. (1975) Anatomia comparativa das glândulas salivares das diferentes castas de Protopolybia pumila (Saussure, 1863) e Protopolybia exigua exigua (Saussure, 1854) (Hymenoptera-Vespidae). Revista Agrícola, Piracicaba, 50, 95–102.
Martorell, L.F. & Salas, A.E. (1939) Additional insect records from Venezuela. Journal of Agriculture of the University of Puerto Rico, 23, 233–255.
Nascimento, P.T.R. (1979) Catalogo de tipos entomológicos do Museu Goeldi. Hymenoptera. Boletim do
Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Nova Serie, Zoology, 98, 1–18.Obrecht, E. & Huber, C. (1993) Ducke type specimens and other Brazilian insect types in the Emil. A. Goeldi collection in the Natural Museum Bern (Switzeland). An annotated catalogue. Jahrbuch des Naturhistorischen Musems, 11, 163–184.
Overal, W.L. (1978) Designação de lectótipos de onze espécies de vespas sociais descritas por Adolpho Ducke, e notas sobre a coleção Ducke (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, 94, 1–14.
Rasmussen, C. & Asenjo, A. (2009) A checklist to the wasps of Peru (Hymenoptera, Aculeata). Zookeys, 15, 1–78.
https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.15.196Rasmussen, C. & Lamas, G. (2011) Catalog of entomological types in the Museo de Historia Natural (MUSM), Lima, Peru: Hymenoptera. Revista Peruana de Entomologia, 46 (2), 51–58.
Richards, O.W. (1978) The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London, 580 pp.
Santos, E.F., Grandinete, Y.C. & Noll, F.B. (2015) Additions to the checklist of Scoliidae, Sphecidae, Pompilidae
and Vespidae of Peru, with notes on the endemic status of some species (Hymenoptera, Aculeata). ZooKeys, 519, 33–48.
https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.519.6501Santos-Junior, J.N.A., Silveira, O.T. & Carpenter, J.M. (2015) Phylogeny of Protopolybia Ducke, 1905 and taxonomic revision of the Protopolybia exigua species-group (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Polistinae) with description of four new species. Zootaxa, 3956 (2), 151–182.
https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3956.2.1Santos-Junior, J.N.A., Silveira, O.T. & Carpenter, J.M. (2017) A new species of the genus Protopolybia Ducke, 1905 (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Polistinae), with taxonomic contributions to the exigua species-group. Zootaxa, 4286 (3), 432–438.
https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4286.3.11Sarmiento, C. (1994) Lista de las avispas sociales (Hym. Vespidae) de Colombia. Revista de Biología Tropical, 42 (1/2), 357–363.
Saussure, H. de (1853–1858) Études sur la famille des Vespides 2: Monographie des Guêpes Sociales ou de la tribu des Vespiens. V. Masson, Paris & J. Kessmann, Genève, cxliv + 256 pp., 37 pls. (1853); 96 pp., pls. 2–8, 13 (1854).
Saussure, H. de. (1863) Mélanges hyménoptérologiques. II. Vespides. Memoires de la Société de physique et d`histoire naturelle de Genève, 17, 171–244.
Silveira, O.T. & Carpenter, J.M. (1995) Protopolybia bituberculata, a new neotropical social wasp (Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Polistinae). Journal New York Entomology Society, 103 (1), 48–54.
Silveira, O.T. (2004) Protopolybia aliciae, a new polistine social wasp from Brazilian Amazonia (Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Polistinae). Zootaxa, 598 (1), 1–5.
https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.598.1.1Silveira, O.T. (2006) Revision of the subgenus Kappa de Saussure of Mischocyttarus de Saussure (Hym.; Vespidae, Polistinae, Mischocyttarini). Zootaxa, 1321, 1–108.
Wenzel, J.W. (1991) Evolution of nest architecture. In: Ross, K.G. & Matthews, R.W. (Eds.), The social biology of wasps. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York, pp. 480–519.
Wenzel, J.W. (1998) A generic key to the nests of hornets, yellow jackets, and paper wasps worldwide (Vespidae: Vespinae, Polistinae). American Museum Novitates, 3224, 1–39.
Weyrauch, W.K. (1943) La distribución de las avispas sociales en el Perú. Boletin del Museo de Historia Natural “Javier Prado”, 7, 66–95.
West-Eberhard, M.J., Carpenter, J.M. & Hanson, P. (1995) The vespid wasps (Vespidae). In: Hanson, P. & Gauld, I.D. (Eds.), The Hymenoptera of Costa Rica. Oxford University Press, New York, pp. 561–587.