Agelaia

Agelaia
Agelaia angulata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Vespidae
Subfamily:	Polistinae
Tribe:	Epiponini
Genus:	Agelaia Lepeletier, 1836
Type species
Agelaia testacea (Fabricius, 1804)
Species
33 species

Agelaia is a genus of Neotropical social wasps (family Vespidae), with species from Mexico to northern Argentina. 17 of the 33 described species are found in Brazil. ^{[1] [2] [3]} These species are swarm founders that nest in cavities. The nest generally is without an envelope, with that of A. areata a notable exception for having a complete envelope. ^[1]

The main component of the venom is agelotoxin, a phospholipase A2 direct haemolysin.^{[ citation needed ]}

Species

There are 33 extant species of Agelaia: ^{[2] [3]}

• Agelaia acreana Silveira & Carpenter, 1996
• Agelaia anceps (de Saussure, 1854)
• Agelaia angulata (Fabricius, 1804)
• Agelaia angulicollis (Spinola, 1851)
• Agelaia areata (Say, 1837)
• Agelaia baezae (Richards, 1943)
• Agelaia bequaerti (Richards, 1951)
• Agelaia brevistigma (Richards, 1978)
• Agelaia cajennensis (Fabricius, 1798)
• Agelaia centralis (Cameron, 1907)
• Agelaia constructor (de Saussure, 1854)
• Agelaia cornelliana (Richards, 1943)
• Agelaia flavipennis (Ducke, 1905)
• Agelaia fulvofasciata (DeGeer, 1773)
• Agelaia hamiltoni (Richards, 1978)
• Agelaia imitatrix Cooper, 2001
• Agelaia lobipleura (Richards, 1978)
• Agelaia melanopyga Cooper, 2000
• Agelaia multipicta (Haliday, 1836)
• Agelaia myrmecophila (Ducke, 1905)
• Agelaia nebularum Cooper, 2000
• Agelaia nigrescens Cooper, 2001
• Agelaia ornata (Ducke, 1905)
• Agelaia pallidiventris (Richards, 1978)
• Agelaia pallipes (Oliver, 1792)
• Agelaia panamaensis (Cameron, 1906)
• Agelaia pleuralis Cooper, 2000
• Agelaia silvatica Cooper, 2000
• Agelaia testacea (Fabricius, 1804)
• Agelaia timida Cooper, 2000
• Agelaia vicina (de Saussure, 1854)
• Agelaia xanthopus (de Saussure, 1854)
• Agelaia yepocapa (Richards, 1978)

References

1. Richards, Owain Westmacott (1978). The social wasps of the Americas, excluding the Vespinae. London: British Museum (Natural History). pp. 477–488. ISBN   0565007858.
2. James M. Carpenter. "Tentative Checklist of the Polistine Tribe Epiponini". IUNH. Archived from the original on 29 December 2017.
3. Andena, Sergio R.; Noll, Fernando B.; Daza, Mario N.; Carpenter, James M. (2024). "The phylogeny of the species of the genus Agelaia Lepeletier, 1836, one of the basalmost groups of Epiponini, with notes on male genitalia (Hymenoptera: Vespidae; Polistinae)". American Museum Novitates (4009): 1–48. doi: 10.1206/4009.1 .

Further reading

• Zucchi, R., Sakagami, S. F., Noll, F. B., Mechi, M. R., Mateus, S., Baio, M. V., et al. (1995). Agelaia vicina, a swarm-founding polistine with the largest colony size among wasps and bees (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Journal of the New York Entomological Society, 103(2), 129–137.
• Hermes Marcel Gustavo, Köhler Andreas. The genus Agelaia Lepeletier (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Polistinae) in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Rev. Bras. entomol. [serial on the Internet]. 2004 Mar [cited 2008 May 17] ; 48(1): 135–138. doi : 10.1590/S0085-56262004000100023