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Apache Paper Wasp (Polistes apachus)
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Copyright © 2017
Kurt Schaefer
Polistes aurifer -? -
Polistes apachus
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Texhoma, Texas County, Oklahoma, USA
December 31, 1969
Size: 20mm
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Contributed by
Kurt Schaefer
on 5 August, 2017 - 12:14pm
Last updated 7 August, 2017 - 9:54am
Moved
Moved from
Polistes aurifer
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Matthias Buck
, 7 August, 2017 - 9:54am
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Wow!
I am greatly surprised that you get Polistes with such a colour pattern in Oklahoma! If it was not for the location I would certainly call it aurifer. However, I have only seen aurifer with this pattern from southwest Texas and south Arizona. Furthermore, you have fuscatus in the area (which is actually the same species; aurifer merely being the western subspecies). You photographed it, too (see photo below). Therefore I am calling this apachus, though with an extreme xanthic pattern I have never seen before. Very interesting - thanks for posting! Please continue to share your images of vespids and other wasps!
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Matthias Buck
, 7 August, 2017 - 9:53am
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