Global InformationPolybia occidentalis information
| Polybia occidentalis | |
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| Polybia occidentalis | |
Conservation status
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 Data Deficient (IUCN 3.1)[1] | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Vespidae |
| Subfamily: | Polistinae |
| Genus: | Polybia |
| Species: | P. occidentalis
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| Binomial name | |
| Polybia occidentalis Olivier, 1791
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Polybia occidentalis, commonly known as camoati, is a swarm-founding advanced eusocial wasp. Swarm-founding means that a swarm of these wasps find a nesting site and build the nest together.[2] This species can be found in Central and South America.[3] P. occidentalis preys on nectar, insects, and carbohydrate sources, while birds and ants prey on and parasitize them.[4] P. occidentalis workers bite each other to communicate the time to start working.[5]
- ^ International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. "The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species". Retrieved 2 October 2014.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
jeanne1986was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Preston-Mafham, Rod; Preston-Mafham, Ken (1993). The Encyclopedia of Land Invertebrate Behaviour. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. pp. 207. ISBN 978-0262161374.
- ^ Hrncir, Michael; Mateus, Sidnei; Nascimento, Fábio S. (2007). "Exploitation of Carbohydrate Food Sources in Polybia occidentalis: Social Cues Influence Foraging Decisions in Swarm-founding Wasps". Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 61 (6): 975–83. doi:10.1007/s00265-006-0326-6. S2CID 30961482.
- ^ O'donnell, Sean (2001). "Worker Biting Interactions and Task Performance in a Swarm-founding Eusocial Wasp (Polybia occidentalis, Hymenoptera: Vespidae)". Behavioral Ecology. 12 (3): 353–59. doi:10.1093/beheco/12.3.353.