Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Vespidae Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Hymenoptera Genus Polistes | |
This species was described in 2012. Individuals were previously placed in the P. fuscatus-group (Polistes fuscatus, Polistes metricus, Polistes bellicosus).Diagnostic information can be found in the Identification Atlas of the Vespidae of the Northeastern Nearctic Region as "species A". It appears in the NCBI taxonomy as [Polistes sp. Buck1.
This species is believed to be an obligate parasite of other social wasps, but no documented observations of this behavior have been made.
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Polistes hirsuticornis Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA