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Polistinae

Description

Subfamily Polistinae

Polistinae or paper wasps consist of more than 900 species throughout the world in 25 genera (West-Eberhard et al. 2006, Pickett & Carpenter 2010).

Notes

Published as part of Siddiqui, Junaid Ali, Bodlah, Imran, Carpenter, James M., Naeem, Muhammad, Ahmad, Munir & Bodlah, Muhammad Adnan, 2015, Vespidae (Hymenoptera) of the Pothwar region of Punjab, Pakistan, pp. 501-524 in Zootaxa 3914 (5) on page 512, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3914.5.1, http://zenodo.org/record/241739

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Biodiversity

Family
Vespidae
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hymenoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Taxon rank
subFamily

References

  • West-Eberhard, M. J., Carpenter, J. M. & Hanson, P. E. (2006) Familia Vespidae. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 77, 617 - 644.
  • Pickett, K. M. & Carpenter, J. M. (2010) Simultaneous analysis and the origin of eusociality in the Vespidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera). Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny, 68, 3 - 33.