Polistes
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Polistes is a cosmopolitan genus of paper wasps and the only genus in the tribe Polistini. Vernacular names for the genus include umbrella wasps, coined by Walter Ebeling in 1975 to distinguish it fro
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P. metricus, female
Polistes africanus wasp on a nest in Tanzania.
Polistes annularis (ringed paper wasp) nest in the United States.
Vespidae
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The Vespidae are a large, diverse, cosmopolitan family of wasps, including nearly all the eusocial wasps and many solitary wasps. Each social wasp colony includes a queen and a number of female worker
Polistes
…other types of paper wasp, in reference to the form of their nests, and umbrella paper wasps. Polistes is the single largest genus within the family Vespidae, with over 200 recognized species. Their innate preferences for nest-building sites leads them to commonly build nests on human habitation, where they…
Vespula germanica Horizontalview Richard Bartz
Palaeovespa florissantia, late Eocene
German wasp
Median wasp nest