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Yellow yellow jacket Worker 12 - Vespula flavopilosa - female
Copyright © 2009 Jo Ann Poe-McGavin

Yellow yellow jacket Worker 12 - Vespula flavopilosa - Female
Jim Thorpe, Carbon County, Pennsylvania, USA
September 18, 2009
Size: 10 mm
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Contributed by Jo Ann Poe-McGavin on 18 September, 2009 - 10:43pm
Last updated 7 September, 2011 - 6:16pm

Moved
Moved from Vespula.
… Jo Ann Poe-McGavin, 16 October, 2009 - 9:45am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Jo Ann Poe-McGavin, 19 September, 2009 - 10:30pm login or register to post comments

Wow!
This sure looks like V. germanica to me. But those huge "humeral" yellow stripes on the thorax are very unusual. Possibly a flavopilosa?

I would like an expert's opinion on this girl. Move to Vespula for now
… Vespula Vulgaris, 19 September, 2009 - 11:35am login or register to post comments

 
I was thinking V flavopilosa
I was thinking V flavopilosa because of those 2 stripes you mentioned.
It caught my attention because it looks so different.
… Jo Ann Poe-McGavin, 19 September, 2009 - 10:29pm login or register to post comments

 
Definitely V. flavopilosa
An extensively yellow (xanthic) worker. Very developed yellow stripes of the mesoscutum (NOT to be confused with the humeral yellow stripes: these latters are on the pronotum) almost remind of V. squamosa.
Color pattern of the urotergites does remind of V. germanica, but lateral spots are smaller, especially on T2.
… Richard Vernier, 16 October, 2009 - 5:38am login or register to post comments

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