follows: Polistes actaeon Haliday, 1836 Polistes adelphus Richards, 1978 Polistes adustus Bingham, 1897 Polistes affinis Gusenleitner, 2006 Polistes africanus...

Polistes carolina is one of two species of red paper wasp found in the eastern United States (the other being Polistes rubiginosus) and is noted for the...

Polistes carnifex, commonly known as the executioner wasp or executioner paper wasp, is a neotropical vespid wasp in the cosmopolitan genus Polistes. It...

European paper wasp (Polistes dominula) is one of the most common and well-known species of social wasps in the genus Polistes. Its diet is more diverse...

Approximately 300 species of Polistes paper wasps have been identified worldwide. The most common paper wasp in Europe is Polistes dominula. The Old World...

color. The typical form often can be confused with Polistes fuscatus, Polistes crinitus, or Polistes minor. The variable form is red-brown in coloring...

behavior among wasps. Polistes canadensis is a member of the New World Polistes subgenus Aphanilopterus, and closely related to Polistes annularis (from the...

dominance. P. fuscatus is part of the Polistini tribe and in the genus Polistes. Polistes is one of the five independent-founding groups. Older taxonomic concepts...

genus Polistes by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1804, two years after Pierre André Latreille had erected the new genus. Within the genus Polistes, P. annularis...

been reported from Dryden, Maine. Polistes metricus is dark colored, with yellow tarsi and black tibia. Nests of Polistes metricus can be found attached...