Characters of adult morphology, male genitalia, and nest architecture are combined in a cladistic analysis of the neotropical paper wasp genus Synoeca. The single resulting cladogram supports the monophyly of genus. The species are related as follows: S. chalibea (S. virginea (S. septentrionalis (S. surinama S. cyanea))). A new identification key is also presented.
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1 January 2009
A Phylogenetic Analysis of Synoeca de Saussure, 1852, A Neotropical Genus of Social Wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Epiponini)
Sergio R. Andena,
James M. Carpenter,
Fernando B. Noll
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