Leipomeles spilogaster (Cameron, 1912)

Somavilla, Alexandre, Vieira, Gabriel Santos, Andena, Sérgio Ricardo, Noll, Fernando Barbosa & Carpenter, James M., 2023, A phylogenetic approach to the Neotropical social wasp genus Leipomeles Möbius, 1856 (Vespidae: Epiponini), with a new identification key, American Museum Novitates 2023 (4006), pp. 1-12 : 6

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scientific name	Leipomeles spilogaster (Cameron, 1912)
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Leipomeles spilogaster (Cameron, 1912) , specific epithet correction

Figures 1D View FIGURE 1 , 2D View FIGURE 2 , 3B View FIGURE 3

Polybia spilogastra Cameron, 1912 , Timehri (3) 2: 208 (key), 213, female – locality not stated [ Guyana] (lectotype London). – Richards, 1978, ffie Social Wasps of the Americas: 215 (syn. of L. nana [misidentification]).

Pseudopolybia pusilla ; Bequaert, 1944, Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard 94: 298 (key), 299. – Richards, 1951, in Richards and Richards, Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 102: 85. Misidentification.

Leipomeles nana View in CoL ; Richards, 1978, ffie Social Wasps of the Americas: 214 (key), 215 (syn.: Polybia spilogastra Cameron ) [misidentification]. – Sarmiento, 1994, Revista de Biologia Tropical 42 (1/2): 359 (list). – Carpenter, 1999, American Museum Novitates 3259: 1, 9 ( nana sensu Richards View in CoL a misidentification).

Leipomeles spilogastra View in CoL ; Carpenter, 1999, American Museum Novitates 3259: 1, 9. Menezes et al., 2020, Proceedings B of Royal Society 287: (4, 6) figures 1, 2 (phylogeny). – Noll et al., 2021, Cladistics: (8, 10), figures 3, 4 (phylogeny).

Leipomeles spilogaster ; Somavilla et al., specific epithet correction.

DISTRIBUTION: Brazil: Amapá, Amazonas; Colombia: Nariño, Putumayo, Vaupés; Ecuador: Napo; French Guiana; Guyana; Panama; Peru: Huánuco, Junín, Loreto; Suriname.

COMMENTS: We propose a correction of the species epithet Leipomeles spilogastra to Leipomeles spilogaster . Cameron described spilogastra in the genus Polybia , evidently considering the epithet to be an adjective and incorrectly assuming it needed to be feminized to agree with the genus name, which is feminine. ffie word “gaster” is also feminine, hence agrees in gender with Leipomeles .