Social wasps of Unilavras/Boqueirão Biological Reserve, Ingaí, state of Minas Gerais, Brazil

By

Henrique Simões, Matheus
Cuozzo, Mariana Deprá
Frieiro Costa, Fernando Antonio

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2011-9-1

Original Publication

Check list : journal of species lists and distribution

Volume

7

Series / Issue

Issue: 5

Pages

656--667

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

[São Paulo, Brazil] Luís Felipe Toledo 2005-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15560/7.5.656

 

Abstract

Social wasps (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Polistinae) usually build nests using vegetable materials mixed with water and salivary secretion, resulting in a product similar to paper. Between April 2009 and March 2010 an inventory of these wasps was made at Unilavras/Boqueirão Biological Reserve, located in the municipality of Ingaí-MG. Thirty four species of social wasps belonging to ten genera were recorded, Polybia fastidiosuscula Saussure (1854) was the most common.