Polistes hirsuticornis

Polistes hirsuticornis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Vespidae
Genus: Polistes
Species: P. hirsuticornis
Binomial name
Polistes hirsuticornis
Matthias Buck et al., 2012 [1]

This species was described in 2012. Individuals were previously placed in the P. fuscatus-group (Polistes fuscatus, Polistes metricus, Polistes bellicosus).Diagnostic information can be found in the Identification Atlas of the Vespidae of the Northeastern Nearctic Region as "species A". It appears in the NCBI taxonomy as [Polistes sp. Buck1.

This species is believed to be an obligate parasite of other social wasps, but no documented observations of this behavior have been made.

References

  1. Matthias Buck, Tyler P. Cobb, Julie K. Stahlhut and Robert H. Hanner (2008), "Unravelling cryptic species diversity in eastern Nearctic paper wasps, Polistes (Fuscopolistes), using male genitalia, morphometrics and DNA barcoding, with descriptions of two new species (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)" (PDF), Zootaxa, 3502: 1–48
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