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Paper Wasps
Polistinae
The Polistinae are eusocial wasps closely related to the more familiar yellow jackets, but placed in their own subfamily, containing four tribes; with some 1100 species total, it is the second-most diverse subfamily within the Vespidae, and while most species are tropical or subtropical, they include some of the most frequently encountered large wasps in temperate regions. They are also known as paper wasps, which is a misleading term since other wasps (including yellow jackets) also...
4 branches of this subfamily, most-observed first
Polistini
tribePolistini
Honey Wasps and Allies
tribeEpiponini
Ropalidiini
tribeRopalidiini
Mischocyttarini
tribeMischocyttarini
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 343248.