Apoica (Apoica) pallens

PICKETT, KURT M. & WENZEL, JOHN W., 2007, Revision and Cladistic Analysis of the Nocturnal Social Wasp Genus, Apoica Lepeletier (Hymenoptera: Vespidae; Polistinae, Epiponini), American Museum Novitates 3562 (1), pp. 1-32 : 24

Apoica (Apoica) pallens (F.)

Polistes pallens Fabricius, 1804: 276 —‘‘America meridionali’’ (lectotype female Kobenhavn).

Apoica pallida ; Lepeletier, 1836: 538 (misidentification).

Apoica pallida var. pallens ; du Buysson, 1906: 342.

Apoeca pallida ; Schulz, 1912: 84 (unjustified emendation). Apoica pallens ; Richards, 1951, in Richards and Richards, 1951: 153, fig. 23 [partim: form A].

DISTRIBUTION: Argentina: Misiones; Belize; Bolivia: Cochabamba, Santa Cruz ; Brazil: Amapá , Amazonas, D. F., Goiás, Mato Grosso, Minas Gerais , Pará, Paraná, Rio Grande do Sul, Rio de Janeiro, Santa Catarina, São Paulo ; Colombia: Amazonas, Bolívar, Cundinamarca, Putumayo ; Costa Rica; El Salvador; Ecuador: Pichincha ; French Guiana; Guatemala; Guyana; Mexico; Nicaragua; Panama; Paraguay; Peru: Cuzco, Huánuco, Junín, Loreto ; Suriname; Trinidad; Venezuela: Amazonas, Aragua (new record) , Barinas, Cojedes (new record) , Guárico, Mérida, Yaracuy, Zulia.

MATERIAL EXAMINED: PANAMA: Barro Colorado Island, 9d 9m 30s N, 79d 51m W, 22– 28-III-1977, H. Wolda ( RMNH, 10 females); Brazil, Espirito Santo, Sta. Teresa, 19.ix.71, E.G. Mumiae ( BMNH, 1 female); Panama: Canal Zone, 21.viii.1929, L. E. Cheesman ( BMNH, 1 female); Colombia, Bolivar, 15.iv.70, F. Schremmer ( BMNH, 1 female); PERU: Huanuco, Tingo Maria, 21–23.viii.1971, C. & M. Vardy ( BMNH, B.M 1971-533, 1 female); Brazil: Mato Grosso, 12d 50m S, 51d 47m W, 14.IV.1968, O. W. Richards, ( BMNH, 6 females); Brazil: Ribeirão Preto, 1.iii.74, D. Simões, ‘‘N. 221’’ ( BMNH, 1 female); Trinidad: Coryal, 25-5-85, E. D. Bennett ( BMNH, 1 female); Colombia: Rio Frio, 15-XII-1926, George Salt ( BMNH, 1 female); PERU: Loreto, 03d 15m 30s S, 03d 54m 45s W, 16 June 1997, J. H. Hunt (personal coll. J. H. Hunt, 29 females); Costa Rica: Coto Brus, Las Cnjoes, 18 Feb 1996, M. Singer (personal coll. J. H. Hunt, 1 female); MEXICO: Chiapas, Ocozocoautia, 16-I-1972, D.E. Breedlove ( CAS, 2 females); MEXICO, Chiapas, Palenque, 29-X-1976, Edward S. Ross ( CAS, 4 females); MEXICO, Chiapas, Municipio de Ocosingo , 1.IX.1981, D.E.& P.M. Breedlove, 15 km SW. of Ocosingo on road to Sn Cristóbal de Las Casas ( CAS, 1 female); New records: VENEZUELA, Cojedes, Hato Piñero , October 1993 , R. Jeanne, M. Keeping, J. Hunt, det. Apoica pallens, J. M. Carpenter, 1994 (personal coll. J. H. Hunt, 14 females); VENEZUELA: Aragua, Rancho Grande Parque Nacional ‘‘ Henry Pittier’ ’, III-4-1967, M.E. Irwin ( CAS, 32 females) .