Polistes lanio
| Polistes lanio | |
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| In Brazil | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Vespidae |
| Subfamily: | Polistinae |
| Tribe: | Polistini |
| Genus: | Polistes |
| Species: | P. lanio |
| Binomial name | |
| Polistes lanio (Fabricius, 1775) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Polistes lanio is a species of paper wasp and one of several species in the subgenus Polistes (Aphanilopterus) known as a jack Spaniard wasp.
Distribution
[edit]This species occurs throughout South America and on Trinidad.[1][2]
Subspecies
[edit]This species is divided into the following subspecies:[1][2]
- Polistes lanio lanio (Fabricius, 1775)
- Polistes lanio satanulus Bequaert 1940
- Polistes lanio weberi Bequaert 1940
References
[edit]- 1 2 Richards, Owain Westmacott (1978). The social wasps of the Americas, excluding the Vespinae. London: British Museum (Natural History). pp. 477–488. ISBN 0565007858.
- 1 2 Carpenter, James M. (1996). "Distributional checklist of the species of the genus Polistes (Hymenoptera: Vespidae; Polistinae, Polistini)". American Museum Novitates (3188): 1–39. Retrieved 27 August 2020.
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