Summary description from Wikipedia:

Polistes gallicus in languages:

Arabic

زنبور صغير

Catalan

Vespa paperera gal·la

Chinese

柞蠶馬蜂

Czech

vosík jižní

Dutch

Gallische wesp

English

French Paper Wasp

French

Poliste français

German

Gallische Feldwespe

Italian

Vespa cartonaia

Modern Greek

Χάρτινη σφήκα

Russian

Оса французская

Slovene

galska osa

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Parent Taxon

• Polistes

Sibling Taxa

• Polistes africanus
• Polistes albellus
• Polistes albicinctus
• Polistes associus
• Polistes atrimandibularis
• Polistes austroccidentalis
• Polistes badius
• Polistes biglumis
• Polistes bischoffi
• Polistes bucharensis
• Polistes chinensis
• Polistes dominula
• Polistes foederatus
• Polistes gallicus
• Polistes indicus
• Polistes iranus
• Polistes loveridgei
• Polistes macrocephalus
• Polistes marginalis
• Polistes maroccanus
• Polistes mongolicus
• Polistes mysteriosus
• Polistes nimpha
• Polistes ornatus
• Polistes riparius
• Polistes semenowi
• Polistes tenellus

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