TY  - JOUR
AU  - Pickett, K.M.
AU  - Carpenter, J.M.
AU  - Dejean, A.
PY  - 2009//
TI  - "Basal" but not primitive: the nest of Apoica arborea de Saussure, 1854 (Insecta, Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Polistinae)
T2  - Zoosystema
JO  - Zoosystema
SP  - 945
EP  - 948
VL  - 31
IS  - 4
PB  - PUBLICATIONS SCIENTIFIQUES DU MUSEUM, PARIS
KW  - Insecta
KW  - Hymenoptera
KW  - Vespidae
KW  - Polistinae
KW  - Apoica
KW  - social wasps
KW  - nest architecture
KW  - mosaic evolution
N2  - The first nest of Apoica arborea ever collected is reported. Characteristics of the unusual nest design are discussed relative to other members of the genus Apoica and other epiponine genera. The characteristics of its nest architecture are a mosaic of primitive and derived features for the Polistinae, and thus the nest design is not properly interpreted as the primitive condition from which other swarm-founding wasp nest designs are derived. The frequent conflation of "basal" and primitive is discussed.
SN  - 1280-9551
N1  - ISI:000273733000008
ID  - Pickett_etal2009
ER  -