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Group of
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<emphasis id="BECEEACB4B5BFFE7FE15FED8FD68FE84" bold="true" box="[386,715,284,310]" italics="true" pageId="90" pageNumber="91">Mischocyttarus injucundus</emphasis>
(de Saussure)
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The next two species represent (in reduced form) what
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called the
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<emphasis id="BECEEACB4B5BFFE7FA9CFEA3FA80FE32" box="[1291,1315,359,384]" italics="true" pageId="90" pageNumber="91">M</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="BECEEACB4B5BFFE7FE9FFE4BFE2BFE1A" box="[264,392,399,424]" italics="true" pageId="90" pageNumber="91">injucundus</emphasis>
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species group. He continued the splitting process initiated by
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with the recognition of the new variety
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<emphasis id="BECEEACB4B5BFFE7FD42FE73FD4EFE62" box="[725,749,439,464]" italics="true" pageId="90" pageNumber="91">M</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="BECEEACB4B5BFFE7FD6BFE73FCDFFE62" box="[764,892,439,464]" italics="true" pageId="90" pageNumber="91">injucundus</emphasis>
var.
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.
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added more three names, one of them at the subspecies level. His scheme had the following constitution:
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<emphasis id="BECEEACB4B5BFFE7FE32FDC3FE1EFD92" box="[421,445,519,544]" italics="true" pageId="90" pageNumber="91">M</emphasis>
.
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described from
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as variety by
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, and first recognized as a species by
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;
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<emphasis id="BECEEACB4B5BFFE7FC91FDEBFCBDFDFA" box="[774,798,559,584]" italics="true" pageId="90" pageNumber="91">M</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="BECEEACB4B5BFFE7FCA7FDEBFC39FDFA" box="[816,922,559,584]" italics="true" pageId="90" pageNumber="91">jucundus</emphasis>
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a new species based on a single specimen from Manaus, AM,
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;
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<emphasis id="BECEEACB4B5BFFE7FD46FD93FD4AFDC2" box="[721,745,599,624]" italics="true" pageId="90" pageNumber="91">M</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="BECEEACB4B5BFFE7FD6BFD93FCC7FDC2" box="[764,868,599,624]" italics="true" pageId="90" pageNumber="91">juruanus</emphasis>
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another new species also based on a single specimen from Rio Juruá, AM; and finally
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<emphasis id="BECEEACB4B5BFFE7FCF5FDBBFCD9FD2A" box="[866,890,639,664]" italics="true" pageId="90" pageNumber="91">M</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="BECEEACB4B5BFFE7FC1BFDBBFBAFFD2A" box="[908,1036,639,664]" italics="true" pageId="90" pageNumber="91">injucundus</emphasis>
(de Saussure)
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with two subspecies besides the nominate one,
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<emphasis id="BECEEACB4B5BFFE7FD75FD63FB9AFD72" box="[738,1081,679,704]" italics="true" pageId="90" pageNumber="91">M. injucundus bimarginatus</emphasis>
(Cameron)
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and
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<emphasis id="BECEEACB4B5BFFE7FA9CFD63FD83FD5A" italics="true" pageId="90" pageNumber="91">M. injucundus tingomariae</emphasis>
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, the latter described on the base of various specimens from
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,
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, and
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.
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Richards scheme is inadequate in face of character´ distributions being more complex than previously envisioned. An earlier treatment (
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; unpublished) tentatively considered three major groups of forms: one occurring on the extreme north­northeastern parts of South America corresponding to typical
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<emphasis id="BECEEACB4B5BFFE7FCDBFC53FCC7FC02" box="[844,868,919,944]" italics="true" pageId="90" pageNumber="91">M</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="BECEEACB4B5BFFE7FCE3FC53FC56FC02" box="[884,1013,919,944]" italics="true" pageId="90" pageNumber="91">injucundus</emphasis>
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, another group in centralsouthern regions of the continent corresponding to
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<emphasis id="BECEEACB4B5BFFE7FCF9FC7BFC25FC6A" box="[878,902,959,984]" italics="true" pageId="90" pageNumber="91">M</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="BECEEACB4B5BFFE7FC00FC7BFC57FC6A" box="[919,1012,959,984]" italics="true" pageId="90" pageNumber="91">bertonii</emphasis>
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, and finally a third group widely distributed across Amazon Basin and reaching sub Andean regions corresponding to the names
<taxonomicName id="4BBA4D5A4B5BFFE7FE57FBCBFD8BFB9A" authorityName="Richards" authorityYear="1978" box="[448,552,1039,1064]" class="Insecta" family="Vespidae" genus="Mischocyttarus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="90" pageNumber="91" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="juruanus">
<emphasis id="BECEEACB4B5BFFE7FE57FBCBFD8BFB9A" box="[448,552,1039,1064]" italics="true" pageId="90" pageNumber="91">juruanus</emphasis>
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,
<taxonomicName id="4BBA4D5A4B5BFFE7FDD7FBCBFD09FB9A" authorityName="Richards" authorityYear="1978" box="[576,682,1039,1064]" class="Insecta" family="Vespidae" genus="Mischocyttarus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="90" pageNumber="91" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="jucundus">
<emphasis id="BECEEACB4B5BFFE7FDD7FBCBFD09FB9A" box="[576,682,1039,1064]" italics="true" pageId="90" pageNumber="91">jucundus</emphasis>
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and
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. However, characters supposedly diagnostic of this latter group proved to be inconsistent in respect to
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<emphasis id="BECEEACB4B5BFFE7FBADFBF3FB41FBE2" box="[1082,1250,1079,1104]" italics="true" pageId="90" pageNumber="91">M. injucundus</emphasis>
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when additional specimens from Amapá and Maranhão were examined, so Richards´ three names above are here considered synonyms of
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<emphasis id="BECEEACB4B5BFFE7FCA9FB43FCF5FB12" box="[830,854,1159,1184]" italics="true" pageId="90" pageNumber="91">M</emphasis>
.
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(de Saussure)
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. In addition, the subspecific status conferred by
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to
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<emphasis id="BECEEACB4B5BFFE7FC11FB6BFBDBFB7A" box="[902,1144,1199,1224]" italics="true" pageId="90" pageNumber="91">Polybia bimarginata</emphasis>
Cameron
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from
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and
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is not justified, since the supposed color differences are not larger than variation observed within typical
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<emphasis id="BECEEACB4B5BFFE7FD5BFB3BFCEFFAAA" box="[716,844,1279,1304]" italics="true" pageId="90" pageNumber="91">injucundus</emphasis>
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.
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Recent checking of the designation by
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of the
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of this species, as well as its depository resulted in unexpected problems, as noted by
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. In the description of
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<emphasis id="BECEEACB4B5BFFE7FD95FAB3FD45FA22" box="[514,742,1399,1424]" italics="true" pageId="90" pageNumber="91">Polybia injucunda</emphasis>
, H. de Saussure (1854: 200)
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indicated the Massimiliano Spinola Collection in Turin as the only depository of the specimens, without mentioning the Paris Museum (MNHN).
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(but not
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) committed mistakes in quoting de Saussures work, as well as in reproducing collecting data of the
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, errors that were partially corrected in the 1983
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to the 1978 book.
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did not find the
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in the Paris MNHN, and also could not find citations to the species in the catalogue of the Spinola collection by
<bibRefCitation id="E82B4B284B5BFFE7FB5EF9A3FDF5F91B" author="Casolari, C. &amp; Casolari Moreno, R." pageId="90" pageNumber="91" pagination="27 - 74" refId="ref60972" refString="Casolari, C. &amp; Casolari Moreno, R. (1978) Catalogo della collezione imenotterologica de Massi- miliano Spinola. 1 a Parte. Bollettino del Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia Comparata della R. Universita di Torino, 5, 27 - 74." type="journal article" year="1978">Casolari and Casolari Moreno (1978</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation id="E82B4B284B5BFFE7FDF1F94BFD06F91B" author="Casolari, C. &amp; Casolari Moreno, R." box="[614,677,1679,1705]" pageId="90" pageNumber="91" pagination="91 - 130" refId="ref61019" refString="Casolari, C. &amp; Casolari Moreno, R. (1979) Catalogo della collezione imenotterologica de Massimiliano Spinola. 3 a Parte. Bollettino del Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia Comparata della R. Universita di Torino, 4, 91 - 130." type="journal article" year="1979">1979</bibRefCitation>
). Actually, the only name in the catalogue (related to
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<emphasis id="BECEEACB4B5BFFE7FE9FF973FE60F962" box="[264,451,1719,1744]" italics="true" pageId="90" pageNumber="91">Megacanthopus</emphasis>
Ducke
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) is the epithet “
<emphasis id="BECEEACB4B5BFFE7FD48F973FC9FF962" box="[735,828,1719,1744]" italics="true" pageId="90" pageNumber="91">infidens</emphasis>
”, indeed of de Saussures authorship but never published, and referring to a specimen from Tampico,
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. However, Carpenter evidently could not see in the catalogue the citation of the name
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<emphasis id="BECEEACB4B5BFFE7FB85F8C3FB24F892" box="[1042,1159,1799,1824]" italics="true" pageId="90" pageNumber="91">injucunda</emphasis>
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coming from the same “escatola 106” as
<emphasis id="BECEEACB4B5BFFE7FDC7F8EBFD0EF8FA" box="[592,685,1839,1864]" italics="true" pageId="90" pageNumber="91">infidens</emphasis>
, but under the generic name “Rhopalidia Lepeletier”. The numeric codes in the catalogue associated with the name
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<emphasis id="BECEEACB4B5BFFE7FBB3F893FB3AF8C2" box="[1060,1177,1879,1904]" italics="true" pageId="90" pageNumber="91">injucunda</emphasis>
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are 40 (de Saussure authorship), 180 (Pará, the locality), 33 (Ghiliani, the collector of the specimens), and 3 (the number of specimens). So according to
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,
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), the types of
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<emphasis id="BECEEACB4B5AFFE6FE79FEA8FD64FE37" box="[494,711,364,389]" italics="true" pageId="91" pageNumber="92">Polybia injucunda</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are deposited in Spinolas collection in the “Museo Regionale de Scienze Naturali” of the University of Turin (MIZT).
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Richards apparently never saw specimens of
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<emphasis id="BECEEACB4B5AFFE6FC15FE78FBC1FE67" box="[898,1122,444,469]" italics="true" pageId="91" pageNumber="92">Polybia injucunda</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
from Spinolas collection. In his revisions of 1945 and 1978, he does not mention loans or visits to the University of Turin. However, there seems to be no doubt as to the identity of de Saussures
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<emphasis id="BECEEACB4B5AFFE6FE1BFDF0FDC6FDFF" box="[396,613,564,589]" italics="true" pageId="91" pageNumber="92">Polybia injucunda</emphasis>
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among the named forms in this species group. The concept presented by
<bibRefCitation id="E82B4B284B5AFFE6FE3CFD98FDCFFDC4" author="Richards, O. W." box="[427,620,604,630]" pageId="91" pageNumber="92" refId="ref62496" refString="Richards, O. W. (1978) The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae." type="book" year="1978">Richards (1978)</bibRefCitation>
for the nominate subspecies corresponds very well to the
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found in the proximity of the city of Belém, which earlier authors simply cited as “Pará”. The travel of V. Ghiliani (collector of the specimens described by de Saussure) to
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in 1846 is mentioned in Papavero (1973: 342). He stayed for three months in Belém before returning to
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, which imparts confidence about the specific locality of collecting.
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