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Identification Atlas of the Vespidae (Hymenoptera, Aculeata) of the northeastern Nearctic region

CJAI 05, February 19, 2008
doi: 10.3752/cjai.2008.05

Matthias Buck, Stephen A. Marshall, and David K.B. Cheung

Department of Environmental Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1G 2W1

 

Table of Contents

 

A. General

1. Introduction

2. Materials and Methods

3. Overview of the fauna

4. Morphology

5. Biology

 

B. Keys to subfamilies, genera and species

1. Key to Vespidae subfamilies

2. Key to Eumeninae genera

3. Key to Ancistrocerus species

4. Key to Eumenes species

5. Key to Euodynerus species

6. Key to Leptochilus species

7. Key to Parancistrocerus and Stenodynerus species

8. Key to Symmorphus species

9. Key to Polistinae genera

10. Key to Polistes species

11. Key to Vespinae genera

12. Key to Dolichovespula species

13. Key to Vespula species

 

C. Taxonomic treatment

Eumeninae

Ancistrocerus

1. A. adiabatus (de Saussure, 1852)

2. A. albolacteus Bequaert, 1943

3. A. albophaleratus (de Saussure, 1855)

4. A. antilope (Panzer, 1798)

5. A. campestris (de Saussure, 1852)

6. A. catskill (de Saussure, 1853)

7. A. gazella (Panzer, 1798)

8. A. lutonidus Bohart, 1974

9. A. parietum (Linnaeus, 1758)

10. A. spinolae (de Saussure, 1855)

11. A. unifasciatus (de Saussure, 1852)

12. A. waldenii (Viereck, 1906)

13. Ancistrocerus sp. A

14. Ancistrocerus sp. B

Eumenes

15. E. bollii Cresson, 1872

16. E. crucifera Provancher, 1888

17. E. fraternus Say, 1824

18. E. smithii de Saussure, 1852

19. E. verticalis Say, 1824

Euodynerus

20. E. annectens (de Saussure, 1870)

21. E. annulatus (Say, 1824)

22. E. auranus (Cameron, 1906)

23. E. bidens (de Saussure, 1870)

24. E. blakeanus (Cameron, 1909)

25. E. boscii (Lepeletier, 1841)

26. E. castigatus (de Saussure, 1853)

27. E. crypticus (Say, 1823)

28. E. foraminatus (de Saussure, 1853)

29. E. hidalgo (de Saussure, 1857)

30. E. leucomelas (de Saussure, 1855)

31. E. megaera (Lepeletier, 1841)

32. E. planitarsis (Bohart, 1945)

33. E. pratensis (de Saussure, 1870)

34. E. schwarzi (Krombein, 1962)

35. Euodynerus sp. F

36. Euodynerus sp. G

Leptochilus

37. L. acolhuus (de Saussure, 1857)

38. L. republicanus (Dalla Torre, 1889)

Monobia

39. M. quadridens (Linnaeus, 1763)

Odynerus

40. O. dilectus de Saussure, 1870

Pachodynerus

41. P. erynnis (Lepeletier, 1841)

Parancistrocerus

42. P. bicornis (Robertson, 1901)

43. P. fulvipes (de Saussure, 1855)

44. P. histrio (Lepeletier, 1841)

45. P. leionotus (Viereck, 1906)

46. P. pedestris (de Saussure, 1855)

47. P. pensylvanicus (de Saussure, 1855)

48. P. perennis (de Saussure, 1857)

49. P. salcularis (de Saussure, 1852)

50. P. vagus (de Saussure, 1857)

Parazumia

51. P. symmorpha (de Saussure, 1855)

Pseudodynerus

52. P. quadrisectus (Say, 1837)

Stenodynerus

53. S. ammonia (de Saussure, 1852)

54. S. anormis (Say, 1824)

55. S. blepharus Bohart, 1953

56. S. fundatiformis (Robertson, 1901)

57. S. histrionalis (Robertson, 1901)

58. S. kennicottianus (de Saussure, 1870)

59. S. krombeini Bohart, 1953

60. S. lineatifrons Bohart, 1948

61. S. lucidus (Rohwer, 1917)

62. S. oculeus (Robertson, 1901)

63. S. pulvinatus Bohart, 1953

Symmorphus

64. S. albomarginatus (de Saussure, 1855)

65. S. canadensis (de Saussure, 1855)

66. S. cristatus (de Saussure, 1855)

Zethus

67. Z. spinipes Say, 1837

Masarinae

Pseudomasaris

68. P. edwardsii (Cresson, 1872)

Polistinae

Polistes

69. P. annularis (Linnaeus, 1763)

70. P. aurifer de Saussure, 1853

71. P. bellicosus Cresson, 1872

72. P. carolina (Linnaeus, 1767)

73. P. dominicus (Vallot, 1802)

74. P. dominula (Christ, 1791)

75. P. dorsalis (Fabricius, 1775)

76. P. exclamans Viereck, 1906

77. P. fuscatus (Fabricius, 1793)

78. P. metricus Say, 1831

79. P. perplexus Cresson, 1870

80. Polistes sp. A

81. Polistes sp. B

Vespinae

Dolichovespula

82. D. adulterina (du Buysson, 1905)

83. D. arenaria (Fabricius, 1775)

84. D. maculata (Linnaeus, 1763)

85. D. norvegicoides (Sladen, 1918)

86. D. norwegica (Fabricius, 1781)

Vespa

87. V. crabro Linnaeus, 1758

Vespula

88. V. acadica (Sladen, 1918)

89. V. austriaca (Panzer, 1799)

90. V. consobrina (de Saussure, 1864)

91. V. flavopilosa Jacobson, 1978

92. V. germanica (Fabricius, 1793)

93. V. maculifrons (du Buysson, 1905)

94. V. pensylvanica (de Saussure, 1857)

95. V. rufa (Linnaeus, 1758)

96. V. squamosa (Drury, 1773)

97. V. vidua (de Saussure, 1854)

98. V. vulgaris (Linnaeus, 1758)

 

D. Acknowledgements

E. Literature

F. Appendices

1. Glossary of scientific terms

2. Image data

 

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