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The Vespidae are a large (nearly 5000 species), diverse, cosmopolitan family of wasps, including nearly all the known eusocial wasps (such as Polistes fuscatus, Vespa orientalis, and Vespula germanica) and many solitary wasps. [1] Each social wasp colony includes a queen and a number of female workers with varying degrees of sterility relative ...
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 from other types of paper wasp, in reference to the form of their nests, [3] and umbrella paper wasps. [4] Polistes is the single largest genus ...
Hymenoptera is a large orders of insects, comprising the sawflies, wasps, bees, and ants. Over 150,000 living species of Hymenoptera have been described, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] in addition to over 2,000 extinct ones. [ 4 ]
Polistes major major is a Neotropical eusocial paper wasp subspecies most commonly found on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, as well as in Central America, South Florida in the United States, and Puerto Rico. [1] It has been called avispa de caballo (Spanish: "horse's wasp") in the Dominican Republic.
P. fuscatus is a part of the order Hymenoptera, the suborder Apocrita, the family of Vespidae, and the subfamily Polistinae, the second-largest subfamily within the Vespidae, of which all are social wasps. [4][5] The Polistinae comprise four tribes, including Polistini, Epiponini, Mischocyttarini, and Ropalidiini.
The Hymenoptera also contain the somewhat wasplike but unwaisted Symphyta, the sawflies. The term wasp is sometimes used more narrowly for members of the Vespidae , which includes several eusocial wasp lineages, such as yellowjackets (the genera Vespula and Dolichovespula ), hornets (genus Vespa ), and members of the subfamily Polistinae .
Ancistrocerus antilope female. Family Vespidae. 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, parasitoids, and some herbivores.
The Polistinae is a subfamily of eusocial wasps belonging to the family Vespidae. They are closely related to the wasps (“ yellowjackets ” as they are called in North America) and true hornets of the subfamily Vespinae, containing four tribes. With about 1,100 species total, it is the second-most diverse subfamily within the Vespidae, and ...