Hunter's Little Paper Wasp

Polistes dorsalis

Classification

Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Eumenidae

Polistes dorsalis is a species of social wasps that can be found throughout various parts of North America. It is classified under the Vespidae within the genus of Polistes. Male Polistes dorsalis wasps can be distinguished from other Polistes species by their distinctly prominent median tubercle of sternum 7.

Distribution

Hunter's Little Paper Wasp — (c) Peter Burka, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), uploaded by Peter Burka · CC-BY-SA

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

United States of America · 2,964Mexico · 321

Sources and credits

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