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Palaeovespa florissantia, late Eocene. The Vespidae are a large (nearly 5000 species), diverse, cosmopolitan family of wasps, including nearly all the known eusocial wasps (such as Polistes fuscatus, Vespa orientalis, and Vespula germanica) and many solitary wasps. [1]
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To help with identification, a good practice to observe is to first categorize the wasp as worker, queen, or male before identifying it as V. vulgaris or V. germanica. Gastral pattern (the black dots or marks on the abdomen) are highly variable and not good characteristics to use in identifying.
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Ropalidia revolutionalis, the stick-nest brown paper wasp, is a diurnal social wasp of the family Vespidae. They are known for the distinctive combs they make for their nests, and they have been found in Queensland, Australia in the areas of Brisbane and Townsville .
Polistes biglumis can reach a length of up to 16 mm (0.63 in) (queen), 14 mm (0.55 in) (workers), 15 mm (0.59 in) (males). It is a larger species of wasp in comparison to its relatives in Polistes. It also exhibits darker coloration compared to other paper wasps; it has a black petiole for both sexes. The females exhibit black abdomens, as well ...
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The European paper wasp was originally described in 1791 by Johann Ludwig Christ as Vespa dominula.The specific epithet dominula is a noun meaning "little mistress", [4] and following the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, species epithets which are nouns do not change when a species is placed in a different genus.