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Par Jean-Luc Renneson :

Genus - Apoica Lepeletier, 1836

Le genre APOICA comprend 10 espèces, toutes sont localisées en Amérique du Sud. Elles ont la particularité d'être actives la nuit.

The APOICA genera includes 10 species, all are located in South America. They have the distinction of being active at night.

Subgenus : DEUTERAPOICA	arborea de Saussure, 1854
Subgenus : APOICA	flavissima van der Vecht, 1972
	pallens (Fabricius, 1804)
	gelida van der Vecht, 1972
	pallida, (Olivier, 1791)
	strigata Richards, 1978
	thoracica du Buysson, 1906
	albimacula (Fabricius, 1804)
	ambracarina Pickett, 2003
	ellenae Pickett, 2007

Littérature de référence : Richards, O.W., 1978 - The social wasps of the Americas - excluding the Vespinae - British Museum (Natural History) LONDON.

Pickett, K. M. 2003, A new species of social wasp in the genus Apoica Lepeltier (Hymenoptera : Vespidae, Polistinae, Epiponini). Proc.Entomol..soc.Wash. 105 (3) : 592-598). Thanks to James Carpenter for the information oh this new spécies.

Pickett, K.M. and Wenzel, J.W., 2007 - Revision and Cladistic Analysis of thhe Nocturnal Social Wasp Genus, Apoica Lepeletier (Hymenoptera: Vespidae; Polistinae, Epiponini) in American Museum Novitates Journal Number 3562, 30 pp., 22 figures, 1 table.

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