Keys to the Costa Rican species of paper wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Polistinae)

 

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Författarna: Valverde, J.-Pablo, Hanson, Paul, Carpenter, James 
Materialtyp: artículo original
Status:Versión publicada
Utgivningstid:2019
Beskrivning:Paper wasps (subfamily Polistinae) are one of the four main groups of eusocial insects in the Neotropics. They are medically important for the frequent stings inflicted on humans, but at the same time are valuable predators of pest insects. Nonetheless, there are no updated keys for the identification of the Central American species. Here we provide keys to the 18 genera and 106 species known to occur in Costa Rica, illustrated with one hundred original line drawings.
Land:Portal de Revistas UCR
Organisation:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
Språk:Inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/37229
Länkar:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rbt/article/view/37229
Access Level:acceso abierto
Nyckelord:Polistinae, social wasps, identification, taxonomic keys.
Polistinae; avispas sociales; identificación; claves taxonómicas.