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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Bees, Ants, and other Stinging Wasps » Ants, Stinging Wasps, and Hornets (Vespoidea) » Yellowjackets, Paper Wasps, and Hornets; Potter, Mason and Pollen Wasps (Vespidae) » Paper Wasps (Polistinae) » Polistes » Polistes bellicosus

Species Polistes bellicosus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Identification · Internet References · Works Cited
Polistes Wasp - Polistes bellicosus - male Paper Wasps - Polistes bellicosus Paper Wasp - Polistes bellicosus Paper wasp - Polistes bellicosus - female Paper Wasp - Polistes bellicosus Paper Wasp - Polistes bellicosus Paper Wasp - Polistes bellicosus - female Polistes bellicosus evicted by ants - Polistes bellicosus - female
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon (Aculeata - Bees, Ants, and other Stinging Wasps)
Superfamily Vespoidea (Ants, Stinging Wasps, and Hornets)
Family Vespidae (Yellowjackets, Paper Wasps, and Hornets; Potter, Mason and Pollen Wasps)
Subfamily Polistinae (Paper Wasps)
Genus Polistes
Species bellicosus (Polistes bellicosus)
Explanation of Names
Latin for "warlike, fierce, combative" from bellus- "war"
Identification
It has completely red hind femora.
Note that previous keys such as (1) do not properly separate this species from P. fuscatus.
Internet References
Species page in the Identification Atlas of the Vespidae of the Northeastern Nearctic Region. (2)
Works Cited
1.The Social Wasps of the Americas Excluding the Vespinae
By Richards, O.W.
2.Identification Atlas of the Vespidae (Hymenoptera, Aculeata) of the Northeastern Nearctic Region
By Matthias Buck, Stephen A. Marshall, and David K. B. Cheung
Contributed by Sean McCann on 20 September, 2006 - 1:46pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Matthias Buck, Chuck Entz
Last updated 14 July, 2008 - 6:40am

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