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What species of paper wasp is this?

What species of paper wasp is this?
Kahului, Maui County, Hawaii, USA
February 7, 2020

Agreed
Agreed with P. exclamans. Hawaii has mostly introduced members of this genus, with this being one of the fairly prominent species.

Moved
Moved from Paper Wasps.

Looks like Polistes exclamans:



But there could be lookalikes in Hawaii that I'm not familiar with.

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