Journal of Biogeography
SUPPORTING INFORMATION
Biogeography of the social wasp genus Brachygastra (Hymenoptera: Vespidade:
Polistinae)
Marjorie da Silva and Fernando Barbosa Noll
Appendix S1 The current distribution of Brachygastra species, based on data from museum
collections and a literature search (see list below).
Species
B. albula (Richards)
B.
augusti
(de
Saussure)
Distribution
Northern Brazil, southern Colombia and north-eastern Peru
Southern Costa Rica, Panama, central and southern Colombia, eastern
Venezuela (except the north-east), Guiana (except the north),
Suriname, western French Guiana, eastern Ecuador, Peru (except the
west), northern and eastern Bolivia, Brazil (except the north-east and
southernmost portion) and western and southern Paraguay
(de Mexican plateau, between the mountain chains of the Sierra Madre
B.
azteca
Saussure)
B. baccalaurea (R.
von Ihering)
B.
bilineolata
(Spinola)
Western Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, east of the Andes (northern
and central chains)
Peru (except the west and extreme north), Bolivia (except the south
and the western boundary with Chile), north-eastern Brazil, Trinidad
and Tobago, eastern Venezuela, Guiana, French Guiana and
Suriname
B. borellii (Zavattari) Narrow strip in central-south Bolivia and northern Argentina, east of
the southern Andes
B. buyssoni (Ducke) Southern Colombia, north-western Brazil, north-eastern Ecuador,
eastern Peru and northern Bolivia
B. cooperi Andena & Western Colombia and north-western Brazil
Carpenter
B.
fistulosa South-eastern Brazil, Serra do Mar region
(Naumann)
B.
lecheguana Panama (except the north), Colombia (except the Pacific coast),
(Latreille)
northern Venezuela, extreme north-west of Guiana, Ecuador (except
the Pacific coast), northern Peru, Bolivia (except the west), Brazil
(except the extreme north), Paraguay and north and centre of
Argentina (except the western portion)
B. mellifica (Say)
Southern USA (Texas and Arizona), Mexico, Guatemala, Belize,
Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua and northern Costa Rica
B. moebiana (de Southern Venezuela, south-central Guiana and Suriname, French
Saussure)
Guiana, north-western and eastern Brazil, mid-eastern Ecuador and
north-east and mid-eastern Peru
B. mouleae Richards South-central Brazil
B. myersi Bequaert
North-western Brazil, northern Bolivia, central and southern
Colombia, southern Venezuela, central Guyana, northern French
Species
Distribution
Guiana and Suriname
B.
propodealis South-central Colombia, north-western Brazil, north-eastern Ecuador,
Bequaert
eastern Peru and northern Bolivia
B.
scutellaris Colombia, eastern Ecuador, Peru (except the west), central and
(Fabricius)
southern Venezuela, Guyana (except the north), Suriname and French
Guiana and north-western and eastern (coastal strip from the northern
to south-eastern portions) Brazil
B.
smithii
(de Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia
Saussure)
(except the west and Pacific coast), central and southern Guiana,
Suriname, French Guiana, north-eastern Peru, eastern Ecuador, northeastern Bolivia and north-western and parts of mid-western Brazil
The following museums were accessed:

Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil;

Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo (MZUSP), São Paulo, Brazil;

Coleção Entomológica da Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR), Curitiba, Brazil;

Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi (MPEG), Belém, Brazil;

Coleção do Depto. de Biologia da Faculdade de Filosofia Ciências e Letras
(FFCLRP/USP), Ribeirão Preto, Brazil;

Coleção de Hymenoptera do Departamento de Zoologia e Botânica do Instituto de
Biociências, Letras e Ciências Exatas (IBILC/UNESP), Brazil;

American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), New York, NY, USA;

Natural History Museum (NHM), London, UK.
The following literature and online sources were accessed:

Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), http://www.gbif.org;

Andena, S.R. & Carpenter, J.M. (2012) A phylogenetic analysis of the social wasp
genus Brachygastra Perty, 1833, and description of a new species (Hymenoptera:
Vespidae: Epiponini). American Museum Novitates, 3753, 1–38;

Rasmussen, C. & Asenjo, A. (2009) A checklist to the wasps of Peru (Hymenoptera,
Aculeata). ZooKeys, 15, 1–78.
Appendix S2 Maps of the current distribution of Brachygastra species (datum WGS 84, http://spatialreference.org/ref/epsg/wgs-84/). The distribution data
were based on the records accessed from the museums and literature (see Appendix S1).
Appendix S3 A cladogram for Brachygastra species showing B. azteca as the most basal species and three main clades, named by Andena & Carpenter (2012)
as the lecheguana, scutellaris and smithii groups (grey rectangle). The other species represents the outgroups used in the analysis.
REFERENCE
Andena, S.R. & Carpenter, J.M. (2012) A phylogenetic analysis of the social wasp genus Brachygastra Perty, 1833, and description of a new species (Hymenoptera:
Vespidae: Epiponini). American Museum Novitates, 3753, 1–38.