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Vespid wasp

Ancistrocerus tuberculocephalus

Classification

Class
Insecta
Family
Vespidae

The Vespidae are a large (nearly 5000 species), diverse, cosmopolitan family of wasps, including nearly all the eusocial wasps (such as Polistes fuscatus, Vespa orientalis, and Vespula germanica) and many solitary wasps. Each social wasp colony includes a queen and a number of female workers with varying degrees of sterility relative to the queen. In temperate social species, colonies usually last only one year, dying at the onset of winter.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United States of America · 119Mexico · 14Canada · 5