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Polybioides
''Polybioides'' is a genus of paper wasp of the sub-family Polistinae which contains six species which are found in the Neotropical, Afrotropical and Indomalayan zoogeographic regions. Species *'' Polybioides angustus'' Vecht, 1966 *'' Polybioides gracilis'' Vecht, 1966 *'' Polybioides melaina'' ( Meade-Waldo, 1911) *''Polybioides psecas'' R. du Buysson, 1913 *''Polybioides raphigastra'' ( Saussure, 1854) *''Polybioides tabidus The African swarm-founding wasp, ''Polybioides tabidus'', is a social paper wasp from the order Hymenoptera that is typically found in Central Africa.Turillazzi, S., Francescato, Baldini Tosi, A. E., Carpenter, JM. A distinct caste difference in ...'' ( Fabricius, 1781) References {{Taxonbar, from=Q4047181 Vespidae ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polybioides Raphigastra
''Polybioides raphigastra'' is a species of social wasp found in the forests of South East Asia and Indonesia. It has recently been placed in the tribe Ropalidiini. This species is known for the downward-spiraling shape of their nests, and for having colony sizes exceeding ten thousand members. Taxonomy and phylogeny The Swiss entomologist Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure described ''P. raphigastra'' in 1854''. ''At the time, it was identified by the synonym ''Polybia sumatrensis de Saussure. '' ''P. raphigastra ''is one of six known species that comprise the genus ''Polybioides''. Four of these species live in South East Asia, Indonesia, and the Philippines, and the other two are located in equatorial Africa. ''Polybioides'' were recently included in the tribe Ropalidiini, which, along with Polistini, Epiponini, and Mischocyttarini, make up the subfamily Polistinae.Arévalo, Elisabeth. Zhu, Yong. Carpenter, James. Strassmann, Joan. The phylogeny of the social wasp subfamily ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polybioides Tabidus
The African swarm-founding wasp, ''Polybioides tabidus'', is a social paper wasp from the order Hymenoptera that is typically found in Central Africa.Turillazzi, S., Francescato, Baldini Tosi, A. E., Carpenter, JM. A distinct caste difference in Polybioides tabidus (Fabricius) (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Ins. Soc. 41:327-330 (1994). 327-330. This wasp is unique in that it exhibits cyclical oligogyny, meaning queen number varies with colony cycle. After several generations of production of workers and future queens, a subset of many workers and queens leave the original colony to begin a new one. The new colony does not produce new queens until current queens from the old colony have died.Henshaw, M. T., J. E. Strassmann, and D. C. Queller. Swarm-founding in the Polistine Wasps: The Importance of Finding Many Microsatellite Loci in Studies of Adaptation. Molecular Ecology 10.1 (2001): 185-91. Web. ''P. tabidus'' has been observed to display both predator and scavenger behavior, depend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polybioides Angustus
''Polybioides'' is a genus of paper wasp of the sub-family Polistinae which contains six species which are found in the Neotropical, Afrotropical and Indomalayan zoogeographic regions. Species *'' Polybioides angustus'' Vecht, 1966 *'' Polybioides gracilis'' Vecht, 1966 *'' Polybioides melaina'' ( Meade-Waldo, 1911) *''Polybioides psecas'' R. du Buysson, 1913 *''Polybioides raphigastra'' ( Saussure, 1854) *''Polybioides tabidus'' (Fabricius Fabricius ( la, smith, german: Schmied, Schmidt) is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *people from the Ancient Roman gens Fabricia: **Gaius Fabricius Luscinus, the first of the Fabricii to move to Rome * Johann Goldsmid (1587 ..., 1781) References {{Taxonbar, from=Q4047181 Vespidae ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polybioides Gracilis
''Polybioides'' is a genus of paper wasp of the sub-family Polistinae which contains six species which are found in the Neotropical, Afrotropical and Indomalayan zoogeographic regions. Species *''Polybioides angustus'' Vecht, 1966 *'' Polybioides gracilis'' Vecht, 1966 *'' Polybioides melaina'' ( Meade-Waldo, 1911) *''Polybioides psecas'' R. du Buysson, 1913 *''Polybioides raphigastra'' ( Saussure, 1854) *''Polybioides tabidus'' (Fabricius Fabricius ( la, smith, german: Schmied, Schmidt) is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *people from the Ancient Roman gens Fabricia: **Gaius Fabricius Luscinus, the first of the Fabricii to move to Rome * Johann Goldsmid (1587 ..., 1781) References {{Taxonbar, from=Q4047181 Vespidae ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polybioides Melaina
''Polybioides'' is a genus of paper wasp of the sub-family Polistinae which contains six species which are found in the Neotropical, Afrotropical and Indomalayan zoogeographic regions. Species *''Polybioides angustus'' Vecht, 1966 *''Polybioides gracilis'' Vecht, 1966 *'' Polybioides melaina'' ( Meade-Waldo, 1911) *''Polybioides psecas'' R. du Buysson, 1913 *''Polybioides raphigastra'' ( Saussure, 1854) *''Polybioides tabidus'' (Fabricius Fabricius ( la, smith, german: Schmied, Schmidt) is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *people from the Ancient Roman gens Fabricia: **Gaius Fabricius Luscinus, the first of the Fabricii to move to Rome * Johann Goldsmid (1587 ..., 1781) References {{Taxonbar, from=Q4047181 Vespidae ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polybioides Psecas
''Polybioides'' is a genus of paper wasp of the sub-family Polistinae which contains six species which are found in the Neotropical, Afrotropical and Indomalayan zoogeographic regions. Species *'' Polybioides angustus'' Vecht, 1966 *'' Polybioides gracilis'' Vecht, 1966 *'' Polybioides melaina'' ( Meade-Waldo, 1911) *'' Polybioides psecas'' R. du Buysson, 1913 *''Polybioides raphigastra ''Polybioides raphigastra'' is a species of social wasp found in the forests of South East Asia and Indonesia. It has recently been placed in the tribe Ropalidiini. This species is known for the downward-spiraling shape of their nests, and for ha ...'' ( Saussure, 1854) *'' Polybioides tabidus'' ( Fabricius, 1781) References {{Taxonbar, from=Q4047181 Vespidae ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paper Wasp
Paper wasps are Vespidae, vespid wasps that gather fibers from dead wood and plant stems, which they mix with saliva, and use to construct nests made of gray or brown papery material. Some types of paper wasps are also sometimes called umbrella wasps, due to the distinctive design of their nests."Paper Wasp" Microsoft Encarta Online Encyclopedia 2006. Species The name "paper wasps" typically refers to members of the Vespidae, vespid subfamily Polistinae, though it often colloquially includes members of the subfamilies Vespinae (hornets and yellowjackets) and Stenogastrinae, which also make nests out of paper. Twenty-two species of ''Polistes'' paper wasps have been identified in North America and approximately 300 species have been identified worldwide. The most common ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polistinae
The Polistinae is a subfamily of eusocial wasps belonging to the Family (biology), family Vespidae. They are closely related to the more familiar wasps (“yellowjackets” as they are called in North America) and true hornets of the subfamily Vespinae, containing four tribes. With about 1,100 species total, it is the second-most diverse subfamily within the Vespidae, and while most species are tropical or subtropical, they include some of the most frequently encountered large wasps in temperate regions. The Polistinae are also known as paper wasps, which is a misleading term, since other wasps (including the wasps in the subfamily Vespinae) also build nests out of paper, and because some epiponine wasps (e.g., ''Polybia emaciata'') build theirs out of mud, nonetheless, the name "paper wasp" seems to apply mostly, but not exclusively, to the Polistinae, especially the Polistini. Many polistines, such as ''Polistes fuscatus,'' ''Polistes annularis'', and ''Polistes exclamans'', m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neotropical
The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface. Physically, it includes the tropical terrestrial ecoregions of the Americas and the entire South American temperate zone. Definition In biogeography, the Neotropic or Neotropical realm is one of the eight terrestrial realms. This realm includes South America, Central America, the Caribbean islands, and southern North America. In Mexico, the Yucatán Peninsula and southern lowlands, and most of the east and west coastlines, including the southern tip of the Baja California Peninsula are Neotropical. In the United States southern Florida and coastal Central Florida are considered Neotropical. The realm also includes temperate southern South America. In contrast, the Neotropical Floristic Kingdom excludes southernmost South America, which instead is placed in the Antarctic kingdom. The Neotropic is delimited by similarities in fauna or flora. Its fauna and flora are distinct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Afrotropical
The Afrotropical realm is one of Earth's eight biogeographic realms. It includes Africa south of the Sahara Desert, the majority of the Arabian Peninsula, the island of Madagascar, southern Iran and extreme southwestern Pakistan, and the islands of the western Indian Ocean. It was formerly known as the Ethiopian Zone or Ethiopian Region. Major ecological regions Most of the Afrotropic, with the exception of Africa's southern tip, has a tropical climate. A broad belt of deserts, including the Atlantic and Sahara deserts of northern Africa and the Arabian Desert of the Arabian Peninsula, separate the Afrotropic from the Palearctic realm, which includes northern Africa and temperate Eurasia. Sahel and Sudan South of the Sahara, two belts of tropical grassland and savanna run east and west across the continent, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Ethiopian Highlands. Immediately south of the Sahara lies the Sahel belt, a transitional zone of semi-arid short grassland and vachellia sav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indomalayan
The Indomalayan realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms. It extends across most of South and Southeast Asia and into the southern parts of East Asia. Also called the Oriental realm by biogeographers, Indomalaya spreads all over the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia to lowland southern China, and through Indonesia as far as Sumatra, Java, Bali, and Borneo, east of which lies the Wallace line, the realm boundary named after Alfred Russel Wallace which separates Indomalaya from Australasia. Indomalaya also includes the Philippines, lowland Taiwan, and Japan's Ryukyu Islands. Most of Indomalaya was originally covered by forest, and includes tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, with tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests predominant in much of India and parts of Southeast Asia. The tropical forests of Indomalaya are highly variable and diverse, with economically important trees, especially in the families Dipterocarpaceae and Fabaceae. Major ecolog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacobus Van Der Vecht
Jacobus van der Vecht (5 July 1906 – 15 March 1992), nicknamed Jaap, was a Dutch entomologist who specialised in Hymenoptera, especially those of the East Indies and New Guinea. Early life Van der Vecht was born in The Hague on 5 July 1906. His father, the Master of the Wine Cellars at the court of the then Queen Dowager of the Netherlands, Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont, had an interest in natural history and reared butterflies as a hobby. He enjoyed taking his sons on walks to study nature and this encouraged a passion for biology in Jacobus. Van der Vecht left school in The Hague and enrolled to study Biology at the ''Leiden University, Rijksuniversiteit Leiden''. Here he began to study the Aculeata, Aculeate Hymenoptera especially the taxonomy of bees, concentrating on the large mining bee genus ''Andrena'' and the wasps in the family Sphecidae. He graduated with a master's degree in 1928. Career After graduating Van der Vecht took a position in the Dutch East Indies at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
