Holotype of Polistes major bonaccensis

Date Collected:

1935-06-07

Central America: Honduras: Bay Islands: Bonacca | Bonacca Island [Guanaja]

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Current Identification
Animalia Arthropoda Hexapoda Insecta Pterygota Hymenoptera Apocrita Aculeata Vespoidea Vespidae Polistinae
Determiner: Joseph Charles Bequaert in 1937
Nature of ID: type ID
Remarks: Determinations made by Bequaert

Bequaert 1937, page 174, Holotype of Polistes major bonaccensis Bequaert 1937 Bequaert, J. The American Polistes with Prepectal Suture: Their Structural Characters, Distribution and Variation. 1937.
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Shows Publication: Bequaert 1937 Description: The American Polistes with prepectal suture. Their structural characters, distribution and variation

  • type number: 36001

Part Condition Disposition Count
whole animal (mounted) good in collection 1 History

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  • Labels: Bonacca Is. Hond 7 vi 35 M. Bates

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  • Continent:
  • Central America
  • Country:
  • Honduras
  • Island Group:
  • Bay Islands
  • Island:
  • Bonacca
  • Specific Locality:
  • Bonacca Island [Guanaja]
  • Verbatim Locality:
  • Bonacca Is. Hond
  • Georeference:
  • 16.4500000°, -85.900000° (Error radius: 8km) By: Nelson Rios on 2018-10-03 (Source: GEOLocate batch georeferencing, 2018-10-03)
  • Datum:
  • WGS84
  • Coordinates Entered As:
  • decimal degrees
  • Collecting Source:
  • wild caught
  • Collected On:
  • 1935-06-07
  • Verbatim Date:
  • 7 vi 35
  • Collector:
  • D. Marston Bates

  • Preparator:  [no agent data]

  • None

  • [Masked]

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