Polybia
Encyclopedia
Polybia is a genus of eusocial
wasp
s.
Eusociality
Eusociality is a term used for the highest level of social organization in a hierarchical classification....
wasp
Wasp
The term wasp is typically defined as any insect of the order Hymenoptera and suborder Apocrita that is neither a bee nor an ant. Almost every pest insect species has at least one wasp species that preys upon it or parasitizes it, making wasps critically important in natural control of their...
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Species
- Polybia aequatorialis Zavattari, 1906
- Polybia affinis Buysson, 1908
- Polybia anglica Cockerell, 1921
- Polybia barbouri Bequard, 1943
- Polybia batesi Richards, 1978
- Polybia belemensis Richards, 1970
- Polybia bicytarella Richards, 1951
- Polybia bifasciata Saussure, 1854
- Polybia bistriata (Fabricius, 1804)
- Polybia brunnea (Curtis 1844)
- Polybia brunneiceps Cameron, 1912
- Polybia catillifex Moebius, 1856
- Polybia chrysothorax (Lichtenstein)
- Polybia depressa (Ducke, 1905)
- Polybia diguetana Buysson, 1905
- Polybia dimidiata (Olivier, 1791)
- Polybia dimorpha Richards, 1978
- Polybia divisoria Richards, 1978
- Polybia eberhardae Cooper, 1993
- Polybia emaciata Lucas, 1879
- Polybia erythrothoraxla Richards, 1978
- Polybia fastidiosuscula Saussure, 1854
- Polybia ficaria Richards, 1978
- Polybia flavifrons Smith, 1857
- Polybia flavitincta Fox 1898
- Polybia fulvicauda Cameron, 1912
- Polybia furnaria Ihering 1904
- Polybia gorytoides Fox 1898
- Polybia ignobilis (Haliday 1836)
- Polybia incerta Ducke 1907
- Polybia invertita Giordani Soika, 1965
- Polybia jurinei Saussure, 1854
- Polybia juruana Ihering, 1904
- Polybia laboriosa Saussure, 1853
- Polybia liliacea (Fabricius, 1804)
- Polybia luctuosus Smith, 1858
- Polybia lugubris Saussure, 1854
- Polybia micans Ducke 1904
- Polybia minarum Ducke 1906
- Polybia nausica Richards, 1951
- Polybia nidulatrix Bequard, 1933
- Polybia nigriceps Zavattari, 1906
- Polybia nigrina Richards, 1978
- Polybia oblita Cockerell, 1921
- Polybia occidentalis (Olivier, 1791)
- Polybia parvula
- Polybia parvulina Richards, 1970
- Polybia paulista Ihering, 1896
- Polybia platycephala Richards, 1951
- Polybia plebeja Saussure, 1867
- Polybia procellosa Zavattari 1906
- Polybia pseudospilonota Giordani Soika, 1965
- Polybia punctata Buysson, 1908
- Polybia quadricincta Saussure, 1854
- Polybia raui Bequard, 1933
- Polybia rejecta (Fabricius, 1798)
- Polybia richardsi Cooper, 1993
- Polybia ruficeps Schrottky, 1902
- Polybia rufitarsis Ducke 1904
- Polybia scrobalis Richards, 1970
- Polybia scutellaris (White, 1841)
- Polybia selvana Carpenter, 2002
- Polybia sericea (Olivier, 1792)
- Polybia signata Ducke 1910
- Polybia simillima Smith 1862
- Polybia singularis Ducke 1909
- Polybia spilonota Cameron 1904
- Polybia spinifex Richards, 1978
- Polybia striata (Fabricius, 1787)
- Polybia sulciscutis Cameron, 1912
- Polybia tinctipennis Fox 1898
- Polybia uruguayensis Giordani Soika, 1965
- Polybia velutina Ducke 1907