Agelaia multipicta
In 3 days ~30% in a week ~60%
Agelaia multipicta is a swarm-founding, highly eusocial wasp that lives in Mexico, Argentina, Trinidad and southern Brazil. It nests in natural cavities such as hollow trees and aggressively defends the nest from ants, who are brood predators. The workers and queens are morphologically distinguished by ovarian development as well as external features such as a larger petiole and gaster in the queen. Like other carrion-eating (necrophagous) wasp species, A. multipicta plays a scavenging role in the ecosystem. Agelaia multipicta was described by the Irish entomologist Alexander Henry Haliday in 1836.
James Carpenter's taxonomic key describes characteristic features of this species such as that the "hind-wing with jugal lobe normal, not reduced," and that the head has an occipital carina present. Additionally, in A. multipicta Carpenter notes the "pronotum without sinuous carina" and the "body without pale maculations, cuticle partly to entirely bluish metallic or yellowish with some bluish highlights; head in lateral view with tempera as wide or wider than eye at ocular sinus"
The queen and worker castes differ significantly in appearance and ovarian development, reflecting... Wikipedia →
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About 10% of wildlife watchers report an Agelaia multipicta sighting in Curitiba on a given day, based on 18 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 54th most-seen of the 177 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 30%, and over a week to about 60%, if each day is a fresh chance.
January and August–September
In those months about 20% of wildlife watchers report an Agelaia multipicta in Curitiba on a given day, against under 5% in February, May and November–December, the lowest months.
Yes
Of the 2 cities where we can rate Agelaia multipicta sightings, Curitiba has the highest daily chance: about 10%. Next come São Paulo (Brazil, about 10%).
Same order: Hymenoptera
The closest relatives of the Agelaia multipicta that you can see in Curitiba (order Hymenoptera, Ants, Bees, Wasps, and Sawflies) are Spiny-Legged Stingless Bee (about 30%), Fiebrig's Stingless Bee (about 20%) and Camponotus mus (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Agelaia multipicta is recorded against all the insects logged in Curitiba (18 verified sightings), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
