Polistes flavus Cresson, 1868 is a animal in the Eumenidae family, order Hymenoptera, kingdom Animalia. Not known to be toxic.

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Polistes flavus Cresson, 1868

Polistes flavus Cresson, 1868

Polistes flavus, the yellow paper wasp, is a paper wasp species in the Vespidae family.

Family
Genus
Polistes
Order
Hymenoptera
Class
Insecta

About Polistes flavus Cresson, 1868

Polistes flavus (Cresson, 1868), commonly called the yellow paper wasp, is a species of paper wasp that belongs to the family Vespidae.

Photo: (c) Lee Hoy, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND), uploaded by Lee Hoy · cc-by-nc-nd

Taxonomy

Animalia Arthropoda Insecta Hymenoptera Eumenidae Polistes

More from Eumenidae

Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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