Synoeca chalibea

Synoeca chalibea is a swarm-founding social wasp that ranges from Costa Rica to Brazil. The species name was originally published in 1852 as chalibea, but misspelled as chalybea in most subsequent publications.^[1]

Synoeca chalibea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Vespidae
Subfamily:	Polistinae
Tribe:	Epiponini
Genus:	Synoeca
Species:	S. chalibea
Binomial name
Synoeca chalibea Saussure, 1852
Synonyms
Synoeca chalybea Saussure, 1854 Lapsus calami Synoeca irina var. splendens du Buysson, 1906