Ecology
Associations
Flowering Plants Visited by Polistes annularis in Illinois
(observations are from Robertson)
Apiaceae: Cicuta maculata sn (Rb); Asteraceae: Aster ericoides sn (Rb), Aster lateriflorus sn fq (Rb), Aster pilosus sn (Rb), Bidens cernua sn (Rb), Eupatorium altissimum sn (Rb), Eupatorium perfoliatum sn (Rb), Eupatorium serotinum sn (Rb), Oligoneuron rigidum sn (Rb), Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium sn (Rb), Solidago canadensis sn fq (Rb), Solidago nemoralis sn fq (Rb), Solidago ulmifolia sn (Rb); Caprifoliaceae: Symphoricarpos orbiculatus sn (Rb); Cucurbitaceae: Sicyos angulatus [unsp sn] (Rb); Lamiaceae: Lycopus americanus sn (Rb), Pycnanthemum tenuifolium sn (Rb); Polygonaceae: Persicaria pensylvanica sn (Rb), Persicaria vulgaris sn (Rb); Scrophulariaceae: Scrophularia marilandica sn (Rb)
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Hilty, J. Editor. 2013. Insect Visitors of Illinois Wildflowers. World Wide Web electronic publication. illinoiswildflowers.info, version (05/2013)
See: Abbreviations for Insect Activities, Abbreviations for Scientific Observers, References for behavioral observations
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Molecular Biology and Genetics
Molecular Biology
Barcode data: Polistes annularis
There are 4 barcode sequences available from BOLD and GenBank. Below is a sequence of the barcode region Cytochrome oxidase subunit 1 (COI or COX1) from a member of the species. See the BOLD taxonomy browser for more complete information about this specimen and other sequences.
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Statistics of barcoding coverage: Polistes annularis
Public Records: 3
Specimens with Barcodes: 4
Species With Barcodes: 1
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Wikipedia
Polistes annularis
Polistes annularis is a species of paper wasp which lives in North America.
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Description
Unusually for a North American Polistes, P. annularis shows little sexual dimorphism in coloration.[1] It resembles Polistes metricus, which differs from P. annularis in a number of ways, including the coloration of the antennae and thorax.[1] The forewings are 18.5–23.5 mm (0.73–0.93 in) long in females, and 17.5–19.5 mm (0.69–0.77 in) long in males.[1]
There is geographical variation in coloration between northern and southern populations. In the north, the thorax of P. annularis has ferruginous (rust-red) markings on a predominantly black background, while in the south, the thorax is mostly ferruginous, with black markings.[1] The legs also vary from black to ferruginous.[1]
Distribution
Polistes annularis is found across the eastern United States from New York to Florida, and west to South Dakota to Texas.[1] This range is similar to that of Polistes exclamans.[2]
Ecology
Polistes annularis forms its nests on the branches of trees and shrubs as well as in sheltered parts of some buildings.[1] The nests differ markedly from those of other species in the genus Polistes. They are much larger, with around 500 cells, and are wide, rather than the slender, elongate nests seen in some other species.[3]
P. annularis preys on caterpillars from a large number of lepidopteran families, including Arctiidae, Saturniidae, Geometridae, Limacodidae, Lymantriidae, Notodontidae, Nymphalidae, Sphingidae, Erebidae, Noctuidae, Amphisbatidae and Elachistidae.[1]
Taxonomy and systematics
The first description of Polistes annularis was published by Carl Linnaeus in his 1763 Centuria Insectorum, where he named the species Vespa annularis.[4] It was moved to the genus Polistes by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1804, two years after Pierre André Latreille had erected the new genus.[5] It is placed in the New World subgenus Aphanilopterus.[6][7]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h Matthias Buck, Stephen A. Marshall & David K. B. Cheung (February 19, 2008). 69. Polistes annularis (Linnaeus, 1763). "Identification Atlas of the Vespidae (Hymenoptera, Aculeata) of the northeastern Nearctic region". Canadian Journal of Arthropod Identification 05: 1–492. doi:10.3752/cjai.2008.05. ISSN 1911-2173.
- ^ Mary Jane West (1968). "Range extension and solitary nest founding in Polistes exclamans (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)". Psyche 75 (2): 118–123. doi:10.1155/1968/49846. hdl:10088/19085.
- ^ István Karsai & Zsolt Pénzes (1998). "Nest shapes in paper wasps: can the variability of forms be deduced from the same construction algorithm?". Proceedings of the Royal Society B 265 (1402): 1261–1268. doi:10.1098/rspb.1998.0428. JSTOR 50982. PMC 1689192.
- ^ "Polistes annularis (Linnaeus, 1763)". Hymenoptera Name Server. Ohio State University. December 19, 2007. http://osuc.biosci.ohio-state.edu/hymenoptera/nomenclator.name_entry?text_entry=Polistes+annularis. Retrieved February 5, 2011.
- ^ C. G. de Dalla Torre (1894). "Polistes" (PDF). Volume IX. Vespidae (Diploptera). Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann. pp. 122–136. http://libsysdigi.library.uiuc.edu/OCA/Books2009-11/catalogushymenop/catalogushymenop09dalla/catalogushymenop09dalla.pdf.
- ^ Kurt M. Pickett, James M. Carpenter & Ward C. Wheeler (2006). "Systematics of Polistes (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), with a phylogenetic consideration of Hamilton's haplodiploidy hypothesis" (PDF). Annales Zoologici Fennici 43 (5–6): 390–406.
- ^ Elisabeth Arévalo, Yong Zhu, James M. Carpenter & Joan E. Strassmann (2004). "The phylogeny of the social wasp subfamily Polistinae: evidence from microsatellite flanking sequences, mitochondrial COI sequence, and morphological characters". BMC Evolutionary Biology 4: 8. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-4-8. PMC 385225. PMID 15070433.
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