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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) » Comanche Paper Wasp (Polistes comanchus)

Species Polistes comanchus - Comanche Paper Wasp

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Works Cited
Wasp - Polistes comanchus Paperwasp - Polistes comanchus - female Unknown wasp - Polistes comanchus - female Wasp with Black Back from Davis Mountains TX High Desert - Polistes comanchus - male Polistes sp. Another foundress - Polistes comanchus - female Polistes comanchus - female Paper Wasp - Polistes comanchus unknown wasp - Polistes comanchus
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon (Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps)
Superfamily Vespoidea
Family Vespidae (Hornets, Yellowjackets; Paper, Potter, Mason, and Pollen Wasps; and Allies)
Subfamily Polistinae (Paper Wasps)
Genus Polistes (Umbrella Paper Wasps)
No Taxon (Subgenus Aphanilopterus)
Species comanchus (Comanche Paper Wasp)
Explanation of Names
Polistes comanchus Saussure, 1857
Numbers
2 sspp.
Identification
A bright species of Polistes (Aphanilopterus) with a red-and-black thorax and an extensively yellow abdomen.

P. c. comanchus has a black scutellum and extensively red T2 segment of the abdomen. Range: e. NM, TX


P. c. navajoe has a red scutellum and the front half of the T2 segment of the abdomen black. Range: AZ, CA, NM
Range
desert southwest: CA-TX(1)
Works Cited
1.James M. Carpenter. Distributional checklist of species of the genus Polistes (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Polistinae, Polistini)
Contributed by Lynette Elliott on 11 July, 2005 - 7:09am
Additional contributions by v belov, PaleoJon
Last updated 3 November, 2021 - 9:05pm

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