Polistes fuscatus: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Family
- Vespidae
- Genus
- Polistes
- Species
- Polistes fuscatus
- Scientific Name
- Polistes fuscatus
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Polistes fuscatus
Polistes fuscatus, whose common name is the dark or northern paper wasp, is widely found in eastern North America, from southern Canada through the southern United States. It often nests around human development. However, it greatly prefers areas in which wood is readily available for use as nest material, therefore they are also found near and in woodlands and savannas. P. fuscatus is a social wasp that is part of a complex society based around a single dominant foundress along with other cofoundresses and a dominance hierarchy.
...Polistes fuscatus in languages:
- English
- Northern Paper Wasp
- English
- Dark Paper Wasp
- English
- Common Paper Wasp
- English
- Hypervariable Paper Wasp
- English
- Imposter Paper Wasp
Images from inaturalist.org observations:
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