- The
Vespidae are a
large (nearly 5000 species), diverse,
cosmopolitan family of wasps,
including nearly all the
known eusocial wasps (such as Polistes...
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commonly known wasps, such as
yellowjackets and hornets, are in the
family Vespidae and are eusocial,
living together in a nest with an egg-laying
queen and...
- Eumeninae, are a
cosmopolitan wasp
group presently considered a
subfamily of
Vespidae, but
sometimes recognized in the past as a
separate family, Eumenidae....
- to
prevent the loss of eggs or brood. Most
social wasps of the
family Vespidae make
nests from paper, but some
stenogastrine species, such as Liostenogaster...
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umbrella paper wasps.
Polistes is the
single largest genus within the
family Vespidae, with over 200
recognized species.
Their innate preferences for nest-building...
- changed, with
Rhopalosomatidae as a
sister group of the
Vespidae and the
clade Rhopalosomatidae +
Vespidae as
sister to all
other classical vespoids and apoids...
- with
which each
individual hive operates. The
wasps within the
family Vespidae exhibit a wide
range of body sizes, and S.
septentrionalis is one of the...
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species in bees (families
Apidae and Halictidae) and
wasps (Crabronidae and
Vespidae) are eusocial,
nearly all
species of ants (Formicidae) are eusocial. Some...
- (May 2017).
Occurrence and
Phenology of
Polistine Wasps (Hymenoptera:
Vespidae) in
Southern Louisiana (MS thesis).
Louisiana State University. doi:10...
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remain about the
differences between hornets and
other wasps of the
family Vespidae,
specifically the yellowjackets,
which are
members of the same subfamily...
