Talk:Parachartergus colobopterus

Some Suggestions

I made a few changes to your article, but overall it was very good. First, I edited your taxobox so that it included the binomial name of your species and the binomial authority. I also added a sentence in your taxonomy and phylogeny section stating that your species was first classified by Licht in 1796. I put the website where I found that information in your references. I also added some internal links to your article to connect it to some other Wikipedia pages. Last, I put the course banner and the Vespidae Project Banner on your talk page. One suggestion I have is to add some more material to your taxonomy and phylogeny section, as well as your distribution and habitat section if you can find any more information on these sections. Great job! Katieortman (talk) 23:21, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

I really enjoyed reading your page and found it to be very well written. I would suggest adding a picture of it geographic distribution and maybe a little more detail on exactly what kind of vegetation they build their nests on. I currently have my own page on another genus of wasps that also has multiple queens in a nest. The wasp species is called [emaciata] and I think it would be cool to mention it in your article. Polybia emaciata are also Native to South America. I also think you should change the wording in the colony cycle section from "dominate each other" to something more like "engage in dominance competitions". Other than those two things I think you have an amazing article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cnemelue (talk • contribs) 21:49, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Peer Review

So the introduction was pretty informative. The article itself was well written and I didn’t find myself making many corrections. However, I thought that in a lot of places the information was more vague than it should be. “Description and Identification” specifies that there is not morphological differentiation between casts but it does not talk about the wasps actual morphology. “Distribution and habitat” could expand on the type of habitats the wasp lives in. e.g. I’m assuming that they live in forested areas if they build there nests on tree trunks. But this should be clarified by the article. Colony cycle: If colony cycles are not annual, then what signals the start of a new colony? The information in Interactions, along with the bit about pheromones in Sociability might be better organized in a Communication section. Cyclical polygyny: Are there any typical queen numbers observed in the field? What’s a typical high and average number? Worker Policing: Are there specific traits that would influence workers to allow one female to become queen over another? Conflict over egg laying: I put a link here for kin selection. In the worker queen conflict section there were redundancies in the information general. Life history: I made some grammar edits here. Clarify why shorter lifespan in the early colony increases colony chances of survival? I hope these suggestions don’t sound harsh, I though the article was well written and informative! Micah.Steinbrecher (talk) 21:07, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

Peer Review

Your intro paragraph seems to be well researched and contains a lot of interesting information. It’d be helpful if you cited some of the references you used to compile this information. That way, readers can themselves look into the various research papers to gain additional information if they wish. This would also show readers that your article is reliable. Within your Taxonomy and phylogeny section, it might be nice to expand upon this section by adding the names of a few relative wasps. Under that section in Description and identification, more information on the nests of this species might be interesting. You could see if there’s research more on the nest structure and how the wasps work to build it. For Distribution and habitat, a distribution map might add to give readers a visual on where this species of wasp can be found. Also, maybe add more information on where these wasps can be found in addition to Central and South America (unless that’s the only place, then disregard this!). I think your sections under Behavior are well written and detailed as well as the section regarding Worker- queen conflict. Maybe information detailing how these wasps interact/ effect humans would be relevant information that you could add to this article. Overall, great job! Daphnedeng (talk) 06:15, 23 November 2014 (UTC)

Peer review

Overall your article is really good! To improve it slightly, I would recommend expanding the "Taxonomy and phylogeny" as well as the "Distribution and habitat" sections. In addition, I would suggest adding pictures because the inclusion of images is one of the criteria for "Good Article" status. In addition, I made small grammar and format (e.g., italicization) changes to your article and added links to other pages where I thought they were necessary. In order to make your article more complete, I would recommend including general sections on information such as diet, morphology, and other subjects that are listed on the outline given to us by Dr. Strassmann on the Behavioral Ecology Fall 2014 course page. Finally, consider adding external links to other sources to give the reader opportunity for further reading. Good job! Marecto (talk) 07:12, 21 November 2014 (UTC)

colobopterus

Colobopterus would signify "truncated wing". Is there an aspect of the wasps' anatomy that would be enlightened by this connection? And in Parachartergus the namer found parallels with the species Chartergus. That might be noted..--Wetman (talk) 04:57, 6 December 2014 (UTC)