Global InformationProtopolybia exigua information
| Protopolybia exigua | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia
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| Phylum: | Arthropoda
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| Class: | Insecta
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| Order: | Hymenoptera
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| Family: | Vespidae
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| Genus: | Protopolybia
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| Species: | P. exigua
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| Binomial name | |
| Protopolybia exigua (Saussure, 1906)
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Protopolybia exigua is a species of vespid wasp found in South America and Southern Brazil.[1] These neotropical wasps, of the tribe Epiponini, form large colonies with multiple queens per colony. P. exigua are small wasps that find nourishment from nectar and prey on arthropods.[2][3] Their nests are disc-shaped and hang from the undersides of leaves and tree branches.[2] This particular species of wasp can be hard to study because they frequently abandon their nests.[4] P. exigua continuously seek refuge from phorid fly attacks and thus often flee infested nests to build new ones. The wasps' most common predators are ants and the parasitoid phorid flies from the Phoridae family.[5]
- ^ Noll, Fernando B (1996). "Morphological Caste Differences in Neotropical Swarm-FoundingPolistinae Wasps. V-Protopolybia Exigua Exigua (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)". Journal of the New York Entomological Society. 104 (1/2): 62–69. JSTOR 25010201.
- ^ a b Gastreich, K. R.; Strassman, J. E.; Queller, D. C. (1993). "Determinants of High Genetic Relatedness in the Swarm-founding Wasp, Protopolybia-exigua". Ethology, Ecology & Evolution. 5 (4): 529–39.
- ^ Rocha, AA; Bichara Filho, Carlos Costa (2009). "Resources Taken to the Nest by Protopolybia Exigua (Hymenoptera, Vespidae) in Different Phases of the Colony Cycle, in a Region of the Medio Sao Francisco River, Bahia, Brazil". Sociobiology. 54 (2): 439–56.
- ^ Souza; De, A. R.; Venancio, D. De F. A.; Prezoto, F.; Zanuncio, J. C. (2012). "Social Wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) Nesting in Eucalyptus Plantations in Minas Gerais, Brazil". The Florida Entomologist. 95 (4): 1000–002. doi:10.1653/024.095.0427. JSTOR 41759148.
- ^ Simones, Dercio; Noll, Fernando B.; Zucchi, Ronaldo (1996). "Duration of Protopolybia Exigua Exigua (de Saussure) Nests and Related Aspects as Influenced by Phorid Fly Infestation (Vespidae, Polistinae, Epiponini)". Sociobiology. 28 (1): 121–29.