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Black-tailed Hornet
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Black-tailed Hornet

Vespa ducalis

Vespa ducalis, the black-tailed hornet, is a hornet and an insect in the genus Vespa. It was described by Smith in 1852. In Japan, it is called hisuzumebachi (姫雀蜂, literally: princess sparrow bee)

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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 502802.