Polistes flavus, also known as the yellow paper wasp, is a species of paper wasp in the family Vespidae.[1][2][3][4]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Vespidae |
| Subfamily: | Polistinae |
| Genus: | Polistes |
| Species: | P. flavus
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| Binomial name | |
| Polistes flavus Cresson, 1868
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References
edit- ^ "Polistes flavus species details". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
- ^ "Polistes flavus". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
- ^ "Polistes flavus Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
- ^ "Polistes flavus Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
Further reading
edit- Arnett, Ross H. Jr. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico (2nd ed.). CRC Press. ISBN 0-8493-0212-9.
- Buck, Matthias; Marshall, Stephen A.; Cheung, David K.B. (2008). Identification Atlas of the Vespidae (HymenopteraAculeata) of the Northeastern Nearctic Region. Biological Survey of Canada [Canadian Journal of Arthropod Identification].
- Krombein, Karl V.; Hurd Jr., Paul D. Jr.; Smith, David R.; Burks, B.D., eds. (1979). "Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico". Smithsonian Institution Press. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
- Richards, O.W. (1978). The Social Wasps of the Americas Excluding the Vespinae. British Museum (Natural History).
- Schmid-Egger, C.; Van Achterberg, K.; Neumeyer, R.; Morinière, J.; et al. (2017). "Revision of the West Palaearctic Polistes Latreille, with the descriptions of two species – an integrative approach using morphology and DNA barcodes (Hymenoptera, Vespidae)". ZooKeys (713): 53–112. Bibcode:2017ZooK..713...53S. doi:10.3897/zookeys.713.11335. PMC 5674218. PMID 29134040.
External links
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