Description of a new species of Metapolybia, a Neotropical genus of social wasps, from the Amazon Forest.

Affiliations

Sergio Ricardo Andena: Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana Dept. C. Biológicas Museu Zoologia Divisão Entomologia
Sidnei Mateus: Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil
Fabio Santos Nascimento: Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil
James Michael Carpenter: American Museum of Natural History, Division of Invertebrate Zoology, New York, NY, USA.

Abstract

A new species of Metapolybia, which had been included erroneously among the paratypes of M. acincta by Richards (1978) is described.

ISSN: 0361-6525 (Print); 2447-8067 (Online)
Publisher: Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana
Country of publisher: Brazil
LCC subjects: Science: Zoology; Science: Biology (General): Ecology; Science: Natural history (General)
Website: http://periodicos.uefs.br/index.php/sociobiology/