Polistes biglumis (Linnaeus, 1758)

Dvořák, Libor, Roberts, Stuart P. M., Pla, Šumava Np and & Caer, 2006, Key to the paper and social wasps of Central Europe (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 46, pp. 221-244 : 232

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.5327984

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Polistes biglumis (Linnaeus, 1758)
status

 

Polistes biglumis (Linnaeus, 1758) View in CoL

Females are very similar to P. bischoffi . The species is extremely variable in colour, and the yellow colour is often considerably reduced. Males are most similar to P. dominulus , which has antennae orange beyond segment 3.

Common species at higher altitudes in the past, but slightly decreasing at present.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Eumenidae

Genus

Polistes

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