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Polybia
Sign in to savePolybia is a genus of eusocial wasps ranging from Central to South America (Mexico to Brazil, Argentina). Some produce enough honey to be collected and eaten by local people.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Polybia is referenced by 15 other articles, and connects out to Brazil, Animalia and insect.
It sits within the topics Hymenoptera genera, Taxa named by Amédée Louis Michel le Peletier and Vespidae.
Its subject is documented across 13 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderHymenoptera
- FamilyEumenidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 1,033
- With media
- 439
- Family
- Vespidae
- Collections
- MHNCA, FCB-UANL
- Recorded in
- Mexico
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Polistinae
- Image
- Polybia SP1.jpg
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- topic's main category
- Category:Polybia
- Commons category
- Polybia
- taxon name
- Polybia
- taxon rank
- genus
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Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- Species
- ''Polybia (Alpha)'' <small>de Saussure, 1854</small>
- ''Polybia (Apopolybia)'' <small>Richards, 1978</small>
- ''Polybia (Cylindroeca)'' <small>Richards, 1978</small>
- ''Polybia (Formicicola)'' <small>Richards, 1978</small>
- ''Polybia (Furnariana)'' <small>Richards, 1978</small>
- ''Polybia (Myrapetra)'' <small>White, 1841 </small>
- ''Polybia (Pedothoeca)'' <small>Richards, 1978</small>
- ''Polybia (Platypolybia)'' <small>Richards, 1978</small>
- ''Polybia (Polybia)'' <small>Lepeletier, 1836</small>
- ''Polybia (Synoecoides)'' <small>Ducke, 1905</small>
- ''Polybia (Trichinothorax)'' <small>Carpenter & Day, 1988</small>
- Fossil species
- References
Polybia is a genus of eusocial wasps ranging from Central to South America (Mexico to Brazil, Argentina). Some produce enough honey to be collected and eaten by local people.
==Species== There are 59 extant species of Polybia divided into 11 subgenera.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Polybia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.