Agelaia
| Agelaia | |
|---|---|
| Agelaia angulata | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Vespidae |
| Subfamily: | Polistinae |
| Tribe: | Epiponini |
| Genus: | Lepeletier, 1836 |
| Type species | |
| Agelaia testacea (Fabricius, 1804)
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| Species | |
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33 species | |
Agelaia is a genus of Neotropical social wasps (family Vespidae), with species from Mexico to northern Argentina. 17 of the 33 described species are found in Brazil.[1][2][3] These species are swarm founders that nest in cavities. The nest generally is without an envelope, with that of A. areata a notable exception for having a complete envelope.[1]
The main component of the venom is agelotoxin, a phospholipase A2 direct haemolysin.
Species
There are 33 extant species of Agelaia:[2][3]
- Agelaia acreana Silveira & Carpenter, 1996
- Agelaia anceps (de Saussure, 1854)
- Agelaia angulata (Fabricius, 1804)
- Agelaia angulicollis (Spinola, 1851)
- Agelaia areata (Say, 1837)
- Agelaia baezae (Richards, 1943)
- Agelaia bequaerti (Richards, 1951)
- Agelaia brevistigma (Richards, 1978)
- Agelaia cajennensis (Fabricius, 1798)
- Agelaia centralis (Cameron, 1907)
- Agelaia constructor (de Saussure, 1854)
- Agelaia cornelliana (Richards, 1943)
- Agelaia flavipennis (Ducke, 1905)
- Agelaia fulvofasciata (DeGeer, 1773)
- Agelaia hamiltoni (Richards, 1978)
- Agelaia imitatrix Cooper, 2001
- Agelaia lobipleura (Richards, 1978)
- Agelaia melanopyga Cooper, 2000
- Agelaia multipicta (Haliday, 1836)
- Agelaia myrmecophila (Ducke, 1905)
- Agelaia nebularum Cooper, 2000
- Agelaia nigrescens Cooper, 2001
- Agelaia ornata (Ducke, 1905)
- Agelaia pallidiventris (Richards, 1978)
- Agelaia pallipes (Oliver, 1792)
- Agelaia panamaensis (Cameron, 1906)
- Agelaia pleuralis Cooper, 2000
- Agelaia silvatica Cooper, 2000
- Agelaia testacea (Fabricius, 1804)
- Agelaia timida Cooper, 2000
- Agelaia vicina (de Saussure, 1854)
- Agelaia xanthopus (de Saussure, 1854)
- Agelaia yepocapa (Richards, 1978)
References
- ^ a b Richards, Owain Westmacott (1978). The social wasps of the Americas, excluding the Vespinae. London: British Museum (Natural History). pp. 477–488. ISBN 0565007858.
- ^ a b James M. Carpenter. "Tentative Checklist of the Polistine Tribe Epiponini". IUNH. Archived from the original on 29 December 2017.
- ^ a b Andena, Sergio R.; Noll, Fernando B.; Daza, Mario N.; Carpenter, James M. (2024). "The phylogeny of the species of the genus Agelaia Lepeletier, 1836, one of the basalmost groups of Epiponini, with notes on male genitalia (Hymenoptera: Vespidae; Polistinae)". American Museum Novitates (4009): 1–48. doi:10.1206/4009.1.
Further reading
- Zucchi, R., Sakagami, S. F., Noll, F. B., Mechi, M. R., Mateus, S., Baio, M. V., et al. (1995). Agelaia vicina, a swarm-founding polistine with the largest colony size among wasps and bees (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Journal of the New York Entomological Society, 103(2), 129–137.
- Hermes Marcel Gustavo, Köhler Andreas. The genus Agelaia Lepeletier (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Polistinae) in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Rev. Bras. entomol. [serial on the Internet]. 2004 Mar [cited 2008 May 17] ; 48(1): 135–138. doi:10.1590/S0085-56262004000100023