Skip to main content Skip to main navigation menu Skip to site footer
Responsive image
Issue: Vol. 4317 No. 3: 5 Sept. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-09-05
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4317.3.5
Page range: 530–540
Abstract views: 88
PDF downloaded: 2

Contributions to the taxonomy of Minixi Giordani Soika and Alphamenes Van der Vecht (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Eumeninae), with an identification key to the species of the latter

Laboratório de Sistemática e Biologia de Insetos, Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal de Lavras, Caixa Postal 3037, Lavras, Brazil, 37200-000
Laboratório de Sistemática e Biologia de Insetos, Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal de Lavras, Caixa Postal 3037, Lavras, Brazil, 37200-000
Laboratório de Sistemática e Biologia de Insetos, Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal de Lavras, Caixa Postal 3037, Lavras, Brazil, 37200-000
Laboratório de Sistemática e Biologia de Insetos, Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal de Lavras, Caixa Postal 3037, Lavras, Brazil, 37200-000
Hymenoptera Pachyminixi potter wasps subspecies synonymy

Abstract

Males of Minixi brethesi (Bertoni, 1927) and Minixi tricoloratum (Zavattari, 1911) are described for the first time. The synonymy of Alphamenes insignis loquax Giordani Soika, 1978 under Alphamenes richardsi Giordani Soika, 1978 is proposed. A new way to separate females of Alphamenes usitatus (Fox) from similar species is presented. An updated identification key is presented for the described species of Alphamenes Van der Vecht, 1977.

 

References

  1. Bequaert, J. (1944) The North American Species of Ancistrocerus, proper (Hymenoptera, Vesipdae). Entomologica Americana, 23 (4), 225–286.

    Bertoni, A.W. (1918) Contribución al conocimento de los Himenópteros diplópteros americanos (Especies y nidos nuevos o poco conocidos). Anales Cientificos Paraguayos, 2 (3), 206.

    Bertoni, A. de W. (1923) III Sobre Vespoideos Poco Conocidos. Revista de la Sociedad Científica del Paraguay.

    Bertoni, A. de W. (1927) Nuevos caracteres para la classificación de los himenópteros vespóideos. Anales de la Sociedad Científica del Paraguay, 2, 127–128.

    Bertoni, A. de W. (1934) Contribución al conocimiento de los Eumenéidos El antigue género Eumenes Latr (s. lat.) (Nuevo punto de vista para la clasificación). Revista de la Sociedad Cientifica del Paraguay, 4, 109–122.

    Bitsch, J. (2012) Morphologie comparée des derniers segments du gastre et des genitalia mâles des Vespidae. 1. Sous-famille des Eumeninae (Hymenoptera). Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France, 117, 199–218.

    Brèthes, J. (1924). Quelques insectes du Paraguay. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural, 28, 67–72. [Valparaiso, Chile]

    Carpenter, J.M. (1987) A review of the subspecies concept in the Eumenine genus Zeta (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Psyche, 94, 253–259.
    https://doi.org/10.1155/1987/82829

    Carpenter, J.M. & Garcete-Barrett, B.R. (2003) A key to the Neotropical genera of Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Boletín del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural del Paraguay, 14, 52–73.

    Carpenter, J.M. & Garcete-Barrett, B.R. (2005) Revision of the genus Parazumia de Saussure (Hymenoptera: Vespidae; Eumeninae). Folia Entomológica Mexicana, 44, 21–34.

    Carpenter, 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 (3), 211–241.

    de Saussure, H.F. (1875) Synopsis of American wasps. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 254, 1–392.
    https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.60259

    Fabricius, J.C. (1804) Systema Piezatorum secundum ordines, genera, species, adiectis synonymis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. apud C. Reichard, Brunsvigae, 291 pp.

    Ferreira, W.D., Grandinete, Y.C., Lopes, R.B. & Hermes, M.G. (2015) A new contribution to the knowledge of Neotropical Eumeninae (Hymenoptera, Vespidae). Zootaxa, 3981 (1), 117–124.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3981.1.6

    Fox, W.J. (1899) Contributionsto a knowledge of the Hymenoptera of Brazil, No. 7—Eumenidae (genera Zethus, Labus, Zethoides, Eumenes, Montezumia and Nortonia). Proceedings. Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1899, 407–464.

    Garcete-Barrett, B.R. (2001) Notes on Neotropical Eumeninae I (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Boletín del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural del Paraguay, 13, 38–40.

    Garcete-Barrett, B.R. (2011) A revision of the genus Stenonartonia Giordani Soika 1973 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae). Zootaxa, 2868 (1), 1–50.

    Giordani Soika, A. (1978) Revisione degli Eumenidi neotropicali appartenenti ai generi Eumenes Latr., Omicron (Sauss.), Pararhaphidoglossa Schulth. ed affini. Bolletino della Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Venezia, 29, 1–420.

    Grandinete, Y.C., Hermes, M.G. & Noll, F.B. (2015) Systematics and phylogeny of the Neotropical Pachymenes de Saussure and Santamenes Giordani Soika (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Eumeninae). Systematic Entomology, 40, 365–384.
    https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12105

    Grandinete, Y.C., Noll, F.B. & Lopes, R.B. (2016) Description of Males from Three Species of Eumeninae (Hymenoptera, Vespidae). Neotropical Entomology, 46 (3), 295–301.

    Hermes, M.G. & Melo, G.A.R. (2008) Revision and cladistic analysis of the eumenine wasp genus Pseudodynerus de Saussure (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Eumeninae). Systematic Entomology, 33, 361–394.
    Hermes, M.G. & Ferreira, W.D. (2016) On the type series of Stenosigma humerale Giordani Soika with the description of a new species (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Eumeninae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia, 60 (2), 123–127.

    Hermes, M.G. & Oliveira, L.A. de (2016) Morphological cladistic analysis resolves the generic limits of the Neotropical potter wasp genera Minixi Giordani Soika and Pachyminixi Giordani Soika (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae). Invertebrate Systematics, 30 (3), 187–200.
    https://doi.org/10.1071/IS15031

    MacLean, B.K., Chandler, L. & Maclean, D.B. (1978) Phenotypic expression in the paper wasp Polistes fuscatus (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Great Lakes Entomologist, 11, 105–116.

    Pickett, K.M. & Carpenter, J.M. (2010) Simultaneous analysis and the origin of eusociality in the Vespidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera). Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny, 68, 3–33.

    Van der Vecht, J. (1977) Notes on American Eumenidae (Hymenoptera, Vespoidea). Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie Van Wetenschappen, Series C, Biological and Medical Sciences, 80, 238–244.

    Zavattari, E. (1911) Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Hymenopterenfauna von Paraguay. Zoologische Jahrbucher, 31, 39–58.

    Zavattari, E. (1912) Materialien für eine Monographie der Neotropischen Eumeniden. Archiv für Naturgeschichte, 78 (4), 1–272.