Global InformationAgelaia multipicta information
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Vespidae |
| Subfamily: | Polistinae |
| Tribe: | Epiponini |
| Genus: | Agelaia |
| Species: | A. multipicta
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| Agelaia multipicta (Haliday, 1836)
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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. 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.