Vespoidea
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Vespoidea is a superfamily of wasps in the order Hymenoptera. Vespoidea includes wasps with a large variety of lifestyles including eusocial, social, and solitary habits, predators, scavengers, parasi
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Ancistrocerus antilope female. Family Vespidae
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
Vespoidea
…Formicoidea, Scolioidea, Tiphioidea, Thynnoidea, and Pompiloidea in addition to a much more narrowly defined Vespoidea (restricted to Rhopalosomatidae and Vespidae). Their research also found families Mutillidae, Tiphiidae, and Bradynobaenidae to be paraphyletic. A later study in 2013 confirmed the need for revision…
Vespula germanica Horizontalview Richard Bartz
Palaeovespa florissantia, late Eocene
German wasp
Median wasp nest