SERGIO R. ANDENA, FERNANDO B. NOLL, JAMES M. CARPENTER, RONALDO ZUCCHI
American Museum Novitates 2007 (3586), 1-11, (6 September 2007) https://doi.org/10.1206/0003-0082(2007)3586[1:PAOTNP]2.0.CO;2
The male genitalia of Pseudopolybia vespiceps are described and compared to congeners. Characters of the male genitalia are combined with morphological characters of the females and nests and used in a phylogenetic analysis. The single cladogram resulting supports monophyly of the genus Pseudopolybia and interrelationships among the species as: P. langi (P. difficilis (P. compressa P. vespiceps)). A new, illustrated identification key is presented.
