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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 » Vespidae » Paper Wasps (Polistinae) » Umbrella Paper Wasps (Polistes) » Subgenus Fuscopolistes (Polistes Subgenus Fuscopolistes) » Hunter's Little Paper Wasp (Polistes dorsalis) » Polistes dorsalis dorsalis
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Polistes, but which one? - Polistes dorsalis - female
Copyright © 2010 Tim Lethbridge

Polistes, but which one? - Polistes dorsalis - Female
Archbold Biological Station - Lake Placid, Highlands County, Florida, USA
August 23, 2009
Size: 15mm-20mm roughly
I know it is Polistes, which is way more than I would have known before joining BugGuide. There are at least two possible choices for species, though and I know I don't know that much yet.
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Contributed by Tim Lethbridge on 25 February, 2010 - 9:29pm
Last updated 4 March, 2010 - 2:22pm

Moved
Moved from Polistes.
… Matthias Buck, 4 March, 2010 - 2:22pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Paper Wasps.
… Tim Lethbridge, 2 March, 2010 - 11:51am login or register to post comments

Thank you
Ken and Vespus, I will move it to genus.
… Tim Lethbridge, 2 March, 2010 - 11:49am login or register to post comments

Polistes
Nice shot. The coloration does not look right for bellicosus or anything other than fuscatus or dorsalis. They both look equally correct to me.

Perhaps Dr. Matthias Buck could tell for sure, but it is safe to move to Genus level in the meantime.
… Vespula Vulgaris, 2 March, 2010 - 11:34am login or register to post comments

Thought about taking a guess,
but chickened out (don't need that kind of humiliation).

Can tell you that it's a female, though. :)
… Ken Wolgemuth, 25 February, 2010 - 9:55pm login or register to post comments

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