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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Vespoidea » Hornets, Yellowjackets; Paper, Potter, Mason, and Pollen Wasps; and Allies (Vespidae) » Paper Wasps (Polistinae) » Umbrella Paper Wasps (Polistes) » Subgenus Aphanilopterus (Polistes Subgenus Aphanilopterus) » Ringed Paper Wasp (Polistes annularis)
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Paper Wasp - Polistes annularis - female
Copyright © 2006 Lynette Elliott

Paper Wasp - Polistes annularis - Female
Asheboro, Randolph County, North Carolina, USA
March 11, 2006
a brown and black paper wasp

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Contributed by Lynette Elliott on 12 March, 2006 - 7:18am
Last updated 2 March, 2011 - 2:49pm

Hey Lynette
I just sent you an email about losing the original jpg of the photo above. Please send me the orginial jpg of this photo. It was uncropped and about 1 meg in size.

You can email it to me at billdroadrunner01@yahoo.com

Thanks a million
… Bill D., 25 May, 2017 - 2:01pm login or register to post comments

 
found the orginial jpg
Nevermind, I found the orginial jpg, so disgard what I said. Thanks
… Bill D., 5 June, 2017 - 8:57am login or register to post comments

I think this is a queen paper wasp, I love it
Hi all, I think this is a queen, and not a worker. The adomen looks longer.
… Bill D., 30 May, 2007 - 1:49pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Polistes.
… Eric R. Eaton, 20 November, 2006 - 3:01pm login or register to post comments

Polistes annularis, female (NC)
A very nice series of pictures (and apparently the first of this species on bugguide)! Note the contrastingly coloured apical flagellomeres and the slender first metasomal segment (as in P. exclamans which is heavily marked with yellow). Otherwise similar to P. metricus.
… Matthias Buck, 26 October, 2006 - 3:13pm login or register to post comments

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