Polistes annularis (lat.) Is a species of public wasps from the Vespidae family.
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| Polistes nimpha (Linnaeus, 1763) |
Distribution
They are found in North America : from the eastern US states (from New York in the north to Florida in the south) and west to South Dakota and Texas . [1] [2]
Description
Females are 18.5-23.5 mm long, and males 17.5-19.5 mm long. P. annularis show slight sexual dimorphism in color (males lack yellow markings on the clypeus and mesopleuron). Geographic variation in color between northern and southern populations is also observed. In northern populations, the breast of P. annularis with reddish-red marks on predominantly black general staining (the mesosome is black, and on the pronotum, edges of the scutellum, scutum and top of the mesopleuron have reddish-red marks), while in the south of the range the breast is more reddish with black markings (reddish mesosome with black areas on pronotum, posterior crestium, also black pleural sutures and central groove on propodeum). Legs are black to reddish. [one]
Ecology
Wasps Polistes annularis build their nests on the branches of trees and shrubs, as well as on buildings. [1] These nests differ from the nests of other polystypes in their large sizes (they contain about 500 cells). [3] In the cells of the nests of Polistes annularis , parasitization of cuckoo wasps of the species Parancistrocerus fulvipes was noted . [four]
P. annularis prey on butterfly caterpillars from various families, including representatives of Arctiidae , Saturniidae , Geometridae , Limacodidae , Lymantriidae , Notodontidae , Nymphalidae , Sphingidae , Erebidae , Noctuidae , Amphisbatidae and Elachistidae . [one]
Systematics
The first description of Polistes annularis was made by the Swedish naturalist Karl Linnaeus in his 1763 work Centuria Insectorum , where he named this species as Vespa annularis . [5] Then, in 1804, it was transferred to the Polistes genus by the Danish entomologist Johann Fabrizius , two years after the French zoologist Pierre Latraille established the genus. [6] The species belongs to the American subgenus Aphanilopterus . [7] [8]
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Matthias Buck, Stephen A. Marshall & David KB Cheung. Identification Atlas of the Vespidae (Hymenoptera, Aculeata) of the northeastern Nearctic region (English) // Canadian Journal of Arthropod Identification : journal. - 2008 .-- February 19 ( vol. 05 ). - P. 1-492 . - ISSN 1911-2173 . - DOI : 10.3752 / cjai.2008.05 .
- ↑ Carpenter, JM 1996. Distributional checklist of species of the genus Polistes (Hymenoptera: Vespidae; Polistinae, Polistini). American Museum Novitates, 3188.39 pp.
- ↑ István Karsai & Zsolt Pénzes. Nest shapes in paper wasps: can the variability of forms be deduced from the same construction algorithm? (English) // Proceedings of the Royal Society B : journal. - 1998. - Vol. 265 , no. 1402 . - P. 1261-1268 . - DOI : 10.1098 / rspb.1998.0428 .
- ↑ Nelson, JM 1968. Parasites and symbionts of nests of Polistes wasps. Annals of the Entomological Society of America , 61: 1528-1539.
- ↑ Polistes annularis (Linnaeus, 1763) . Hymenoptera Name Server . Ohio State University (December 19, 2007). Date of treatment February 5, 2011. Archived on August 15, 2012.
- ↑ CG de Dalla Torre . Polistes // Volume IX. Vespidae (Diploptera) . - Leipzig : Wilhelm Engelmann , 1894. - P. 122–136.
- ↑ Kurt M. Pickett, James M. Carpenter & Ward C. Wheeler. Systematics of Polistes (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), with a phylogenetic consideration of Hamilton's haplodiploidy hypothesis (English) // Annales Zoologici Fennici : journal. - 2006. - Vol. 43 , no. 5-6 . - P. 390-406 . Archived February 15, 2010.
- ↑ Elisabeth Arévalo, Yong Zhu, James M Carpenter & Joan E Strassmann. The phylogeny of the social wasp subfamily Polistinae: evidence from microsatellite flanking sequences, mitochondrial COI sequence, and morphological characters (Eng.) // BMC Evolutionary Biology : journal. - 2004. - Vol. 4 . - P. 8 . - DOI : 10.1186 / 1471-2148-4-8 . - PMID 15070433 .
Literature
- Richards, OW 1973. The subgenera of Polistes Latreille (Hymenoptera, Vespidae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia, 17: 85-104.
- Richards, OW 1978. The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. vii + 580 pp., 4 plates.