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Paper Wasp - Polistes aurifer - female
Copyright © 2007 Lynette Elliott

Paper Wasp - Polistes aurifer - Female
Thompson Falls, Sanders County, Montana, USA
March 26, 2007
Size: about 2 cm
I would have guessed Euro*pean Paper Wasp, but doesn't seem to match. Is it an aurifer?
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Contributed by Lynette Elliott on 26 March, 2007 - 7:30pm
Last updated 10 March, 2008 - 6:25pm

Moved
Thanks to both of you for ID.
… Lynette Elliott, 27 March, 2007 - 8:18am login or register to post comments

I think so...
Although this one female individual is relatively dark compared with most specimens of the species. P. dominula has always yellow, not reddish, temples, and (in the female gender) greyish black, not brown, compound eyes.
… Richard Vernier, 27 March, 2007 - 5:52am login or register to post comments

 
Yes.
I collected these commonly in Portland, Oregon, and this specimen is indeed P. aurifer (formerly P. fuscatus aurifer, by the way).
… Eric R. Eaton, 27 March, 2007 - 2:39pm login or register to post comments

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