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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Yellowjackets and Hornets, Paper Wasps; Potter, Mason and Pollen Wasps and allies (Vespoidea)

Superfamily Vespoidea - Yellowjackets and Hornets, Paper Wasps; Potter, Mason and Pollen Wasps and allies

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Yellowjackets and Hornets, Paper Wasps; Potter, Mason and Pollen Wasps and allies (Vespoidea) » Yellowjackets and Hornets, Paper Wasps; Potter, Mason and Pollen Wasps (Vespidae) » Potter and Mason Wasps (Eumeninae) » Pterocheilus » subgenus Onchopterocheilus (Pterocheilus subgenus Onchopterocheilus)

North American Pterocheilus. 1. Subgenus Onchopterocheilus (Hymenoptera: Eumenidae)

By Bohart R.M.
Pan-Pac. entomol. 65: 156-161, 1989

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Contributed by v belov on 3 April, 2019 - 4:03pm

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Yellowjackets and Hornets, Paper Wasps; Potter, Mason and Pollen Wasps and allies (Vespoidea) » Yellowjackets and Hornets, Paper Wasps; Potter, Mason and Pollen Wasps (Vespidae) » Potter and Mason Wasps (Eumeninae) » Pterocheilus » subgenus Megapterocheilus (Pterocheilus subgenus Megapterocheilus)

North American Pterocheilus. III. Subgenus Megapterocheilus (Hymenoptera, Eumenidae)

By Bohart R.M.
Insecta Mundi 10: 217-224, 1996

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Contributed by v belov on 3 April, 2019 - 4:53pm

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Yellowjackets and Hornets, Paper Wasps; Potter, Mason and Pollen Wasps and allies (Vespoidea) » Yellowjackets and Hornets, Paper Wasps; Potter, Mason and Pollen Wasps (Vespidae) » Potter and Mason Wasps (Eumeninae) » Pterocheilus » subgenus Micropterocheilus (Pterocheilus subgenus Micropterocheilus)

A review of Micropterocheilus R.Bohart, with its elevation to generic rank and description of new species (Hym., Eumenidae)

By Bohart R.M.
J. Kans. Ent. Soc. 72: 197-213, 1999

(Micropterocheilus is now treated as a subgen. of Pterocheilus)
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Contributed by v belov on 3 April, 2019 - 6:18pm

The genus Euparagia Cresson (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Euparagiinae)

By Carpenter, J.M. and L.S. Kimsey
American Museum novitates, no. 3643, 2009

Online here: http://hdl.handle.net/2246/5962

Abstract:
"A new species of the wasp genus Euparagia Cresson, 1879, is described: unidentata Carpenter and Kimsey. The phylogenetic relationships of this and the other species in the genus are analyzed cladistically. A key to and catalog of the species are provided."

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Contributed by Brad Barnd on 20 September, 2012 - 2:14am

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Yellowjackets and Hornets, Paper Wasps; Potter, Mason and Pollen Wasps and allies (Vespoidea) » Yellowjackets and Hornets, Paper Wasps; Potter, Mason and Pollen Wasps (Vespidae) » Paper Wasps (Polistinae) » Umbrella Paper Wasps (Polistes) » Polistes dorsalis

An anocellar polistine wasp (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Polistinae) from Texas

By Volker Lohrmann, George C. Waldren, Martin Reiß, Michael S. Engel
Zoosystematics and Evolution 92(2): 251-255, 2016

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Contributed by Iustin Cret on 3 December, 2016 - 6:33pm

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Yellowjackets and Hornets, Paper Wasps; Potter, Mason and Pollen Wasps and allies (Vespoidea) » Yellowjackets and Hornets, Paper Wasps; Potter, Mason and Pollen Wasps (Vespidae) » Hornets and Yellowjackets (Vespinae) » Ground Yellowjackets (Vespula) » Eastern Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons)

Reproductive plasticity in yellowjacket wasps: A polygynous, perennial colony of Vespula maculifrons

By Ross, Kenneth G., and P. Kirk Visscher
Psyche 90:179-191, 1983

Available for download as a pdf:

http://downloads.hindawi.com/journals/psyche/1983/071386.pdf

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Contributed by Ben Coulter on 31 August, 2011 - 3:21pm

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Yellowjackets and Hornets, Paper Wasps; Potter, Mason and Pollen Wasps and allies (Vespoidea) » Yellowjackets and Hornets, Paper Wasps; Potter, Mason and Pollen Wasps (Vespidae) » Hornets and Yellowjackets (Vespinae) » Ground Yellowjackets (Vespula) » Downy Yellowjacket (Vespula flavopilosa)

Nesting Biology of the Yellowjacket, Vespula flavopilosa (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)

By MacDonald, J. F., R. W. Matthews, and R. S. Jacobson
Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 53:448-458, 1980

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Contributed by Ben Coulter on 1 September, 2011 - 9:18am

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Yellowjackets and Hornets, Paper Wasps; Potter, Mason and Pollen Wasps and allies (Vespoidea) » Yellowjackets and Hornets, Paper Wasps; Potter, Mason and Pollen Wasps (Vespidae) » Hornets and Yellowjackets (Vespinae) » Ground Yellowjackets (Vespula) » Southern Yellowjacket (Vespula squamosa)

First Records From Hondurus of a Yellowjacket Wasp, Vespula squamosa (Drury) (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Vespinae)

By Hunt, James H., Ronald D. Cave, and Gerardo D. Borjas
Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 74:118-119, 2001

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Contributed by Ben Coulter on 31 August, 2011 - 8:42pm

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