Polistes weyrauchorum is a species of paper wasp in the family Vespidae. It is found along narrow strip along the western coast of South America, from Ecuador to northern Chile.[1][2] Polites weyrauchorum is locally known as pulato o púlate in Chiclayo.[1] It is part of the subgenus Polistes (Aphanilopterus).[3]

Polistes weyrauchorum
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Vespidae
Subfamily: Polistinae
Genus: Polistes
Species:
P. weyrauchorum
Binomial name
Polistes weyrauchorum
Willink, 1964

References

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  1. ^ a b Renán J. García A. 1978. Cuadro estudios sobre avispas sociales del Perú (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Revista peruana de entomología. Vol. 21, N. 1.
  2. ^ "Polistes weyrauchorum Willink, 1964". Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
  3. ^ Somavilla, Alexandre; Oliveira, Marcio Luiz; Andena, Sergio Ricardo; Carpenter, James Michael (25 October 2018). "An illustrated atlas for male genitalia of the New World Polistes Latreille, 1802 (Vespidae: Polistinae)". Zootaxa. 4504 (3): 301–344. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4504.3.1. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 30486013.