Agelaia multipicta

Agelaia multipicta
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Vespidae
Subfamily:	Polistinae
Tribe:	Epiponini
Genus:	Agelaia
Species:	A. multipicta
Binomial name
	Agelaia multipicta; (Haliday, 1836)
Synonyms
	Polistes multipictus Haliday, 1836; Polybia multipicta (Haliday, 1836); Polybia anceps Saussure, 1854; Polybia pallipes Fox, 1898; Polybia meridionalis R. von Ihering, 1904; Stelopolybia meridionalis Ducke, 1910; Gymnopolybia meridionalis Ducke, 1918; Stelopolybia anceps (Saussure, 1854); Stelopolybia bequaerti Richards, 1951; Stelopolybia multipicta (Haliday, 1836);

Agelaia multipicta is a swarm-founding, highly eusocial wasp that lives in Mexico, Argentina, Trinidad and southern Brazil.^[2] It nests in natural cavities such as hollow trees and aggressively defends the nest from ants, who are brood predators.^[3] The workers and queens are morphologically distinguished by ovarian development as well as external features such as a larger petiole and gaster in the queen.^[4] Like other carrion-eating (necrophagous) wasp species, A. multipicta plays a scavenging role in the ecosystem. Agelaia multipicta was described by the Irish entomologist Alexander Henry Haliday in 1836.^[5]

^ James M. Carpenter. "Tentative Checklist of the Polistine Tribe Epiponini". IUNH. Archived from the original on 29 December 2017. Retrieved 2 May 2017.
^ White, Stefanie; Starr, Christopher (2013). "Comings and goings of Agelaia multipicta (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) in Trinidad, West Indies" (PDF). Living World, J. Trinidad and Tobago Field Naturalists' Club.
^ Giannotti, Edilberto (1998). "On the Nest of Agelaia multipicta (Haliday, 1836) and Description of the Matrue Larva (Hymenoptera, Vespidae)". Revista Brasileira de Entomologia, Sao Paulo. 42: 97–99.
^ Noll, F; Simones, D (1997). "Morphological caste differences in the neotropical swarm-founding Polistinae wasps: Agelaia m. multipicta and A. p. pallipes (Hymenoptera Vespidae)". Ethology Ecology & Evolution. 9 (4): 361–372. Bibcode:1997EtEcE...9..361N. doi:10.1080/08927014.1997.9522878.
^ Moretti, Thiago; Giannotti, Edilberto; Thyssen, Patricia; Solis, Daniel; Godoy, Wesley (2011). "Bait and habitat preferences, and temporal variability of social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) attracted to vertebrate carrion". Journal of Medical Entomology. 48 (5): 1069–75. doi:10.1603/ME11068. PMID 21936327. S2CID 27101675.

[Carpenter-1] James M. Carpenter. "Tentative Checklist of the Polistine Tribe Epiponini". IUNH. Archived from the original on 29 December 2017. Retrieved 2 May 2017.

[:3-2] White, Stefanie; Starr, Christopher (2013). "Comings and goings of Agelaia multipicta (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) in Trinidad, West Indies" (PDF). Living World, J. Trinidad and Tobago Field Naturalists' Club.

[great-3] Giannotti, Edilberto (1998). "On the Nest of Agelaia multipicta (Haliday, 1836) and Description of the Matrue Larva (Hymenoptera, Vespidae)". Revista Brasileira de Entomologia, Sao Paulo. 42: 97–99.

[morph-4] Noll, F; Simones, D (1997). "Morphological caste differences in the neotropical swarm-founding Polistinae wasps: Agelaia m. multipicta and A. p. pallipes (Hymenoptera Vespidae)". Ethology Ecology & Evolution. 9 (4): 361–372. Bibcode:1997EtEcE...9..361N. doi:10.1080/08927014.1997.9522878.

[habitat-5] Moretti, Thiago; Giannotti, Edilberto; Thyssen, Patricia; Solis, Daniel; Godoy, Wesley (2011). "Bait and habitat preferences, and temporal variability of social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) attracted to vertebrate carrion". Journal of Medical Entomology. 48 (5): 1069–75. doi:10.1603/ME11068. PMID 21936327. S2CID 27101675.

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