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Agelaia

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Description

Agelaia is a genus of Neotropical social wasps (family Vespidae), with species from Mexico to northern Argentina. Fifteen of the 31 described species are found in Brazil. These species are swarm founders that nest in cavities. The nest generally is without an envelope.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agelaia, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	1310134	https://www.gbif.org/species/1310134
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	219895	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=219895

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Hymenoptera : Vespidae : Agelaia

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Ecdysozoa
-	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
subphylum	Mandibulata
-	Pancrustacea
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
-	Cercofilata	Kukalová-Peck 1987
class	Insecta	Linnaeus 1758
-	Dicondylia
-	Paranotalia	Sroka et al. 2014
subclass	Pterygota	Brauer 1885
-	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
-	Holometabola
order	Hymenoptera	Linnaeus 1758
-	Unicalcarida	Schulmeister et al. 2002
suborder	Vespina
suborder	Apocrita	Gerstaecker 1867
-	Aculeata
superfamily	Vespoidea	Latreille 1802
family	Vespidae	Latreille 1802
genus	Agelaia	Lepeletier de Saint Fargeau 1836

Scientific Name

Agelaia Lepeletier de Saint Fargeau, 1836

Name Published In

(Roret's Suite à Buffon) Hyménopt., 1, 1836

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Agelaia	genus	belongs to Vespidae	stated with evidence	Carpenter and Grimaldi, 1997

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

1 (50%)

First Recorded Appearance

20.4 - 13.8 Ma
Miocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. M. Carpenter and D. A. Grimaldi. 1997. Social wasps in amber. American Museum Novitates 3203:1-7

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agelaia

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Agelaia acreana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agelaia angulata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agelaia angulicollis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agelaia areata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agelaia baezae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agelaia brevistigma species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agelaia cajennensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agelaia constructa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agelaia constructor species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agelaia cornelliana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agelaia electra ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Agelaia flavipennis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agelaia fulvofasciata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agelaia hamiltoni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agelaia imitatrix species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agelaia lobipleura species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agelaia melanopyga species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agelaia meridionalis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agelaia multipicta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agelaia myrmecophila species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agelaia nebularum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agelaia nigrescens species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agelaia ornata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agelaia pallidiventris species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agelaia pallipes species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agelaia panamensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agelaia pleuralis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agelaia silvatica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agelaia testacea species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agelaia timida species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agelaia vicina species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agelaia xanthopus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Agelaia yepocapa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Aglaia Dalla Torre, 1904	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Hymenoptera : Vespidae : *Aglaia*
Agelaea Agassiz, 1846	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Hymenoptera : Vespidae : *Agelaea*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1836	Agelaia Lepeletier
1997	Agelaia Carpenter and Grimaldi

References

Carpenter J. M., Grimaldi D. A. (1997) Social wasps in amber, American Museum Novitates 3203, 1-7

(Roret's Suite à Buffon) Hyménopt., 1, 1836 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

CoL2006 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

CoL2006/ZOBODAT (Vespoidea) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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