Apoica is a genus of eusocialpaper wasp found throughout the Central and South Americantropics. These wasps are truly nocturnal, carrying out their foraging activities after the setting of the sun. They prefer to construct their nests, which have an open comb like many paper wasps, under large leaves, or in shrubs. During the day, wasps covering the comb fan their wings to cool the nest, keeping it at a suitable temperature for larval development.
apoica, genus, eusocial, paper, wasp, found, throughout, central, south, american, tropics, these, wasps, truly, nocturnal, carrying, their, foraging, activities, after, setting, they, prefer, construct, their, nests, which, have, open, comb, like, many, paper. Apoica is a genus of eusocial paper wasp found throughout the Central and South American tropics These wasps are truly nocturnal carrying out their foraging activities after the setting of the sun They prefer to construct their nests which have an open comb like many paper wasps under large leaves or in shrubs During the day wasps covering the comb fan their wings to cool the nest keeping it at a suitable temperature for larval development Apoicanest of Apoica pallensScientific classificationDomain EukaryotaKingdom AnimaliaPhylum ArthropodaClass InsectaOrder HymenopteraFamily VespidaeSubfamily PolistinaeTribe EpiponiniGenus ApoicaLepeletier 1836 1 Type speciesApoica pallidaOlivier 1791 1 Species11 described species see textWhen attacking prey Apoica release a drop of venom from their stings which in turn attracts any nearby wasps to attack Species editApoica albimacula Fabricius Apoica ambracarina Pickett Apoica arborea Saussure Apoica flavissima Van der Vecht Apoica gelida Van der Vecht Apoica pallens Fabricius Apoica pallida Olivier Apoica strigata Richards Apoica thoracica Buysson Apoica traili Cameron Apoica ujhelyii Ducke References edit a b James M Carpenter Tentative Checklist of the Polistine Tribe Epiponini IUNH Archived from the original on 29 December 2017 Retrieved 2 May 2017 Pickett K M and J W Wenzel 2007 Revision and cladistic analysis of the nocturnal social wasp genus Apoica Lepeletier Hymenoptera Vespidae Polistinae Epiponini American Museum Novitates Number 3562 30 pp nbsp This Vespidae related article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Apoica amp oldid 1148891104, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
