The Vespidae are a large (nearly 5000 species), diverse, cosmopolitan family of wasps, including nearly all the known eusocial wasps (such as Polistes...

commonly known wasps, such as yellowjackets and hornets, are in the family Vespidae and are eusocial, living together in a nest with an egg-laying queen and...

to prevent the loss of eggs or brood. Most social wasps of the family Vespidae make nests from paper, but some stenogastrine species, such as Liostenogaster...

European hornets on their nest European hornet Hornet stings Paper wasps Vespidae "Hornets: Gentle Giants". Dieter Kosmeier. 2013. Retrieved 2014-09-30....

with which each individual hive operates. The wasps within the family Vespidae exhibit a wide range of body sizes, and S. septentrionalis is one of the...

Oriental hornet (Vespa orientalis) is a social insect species of the family Vespidae. It can be found in Southwest Asia, Northeast Africa, the island of Madagascar...

"Checklist of the species in the subfamily Vespinae (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Vespidae)" (PDF). Natural History Bulletin of Ibaraki University. 1: 51–92. Archer...

"Checklist of the species in the subfamily Vespinae (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Vespidae)" (PDF). Natural History Bulletin of Ibaraki University. 1: 51–92. Vespula...

Eumeninae, are a cosmopolitan wasp group presently treated as a subfamily of Vespidae, but sometimes recognized in the past as a separate family, Eumenidae....

remain about the differences between hornets and other wasps of the family Vespidae, specifically the yellowjackets, which are members of the same subfamily...

changed, with Rhopalosomatidae as a sister group of the Vespidae and the clade Rhopalosomatidae + Vespidae as sister to all other classical vespoids and apoids...

It was described by Dru Drury around 1770. It is a member of the family Vespidae, which includes paper wasps (subfamily Polistinae), pollen wasps (subfamily...

also called “blackjacket”), is a species of stinging wasp in the family Vespidae, which includes multiple cousin species in the northern hemisphere, such...

for the finer ridges on its propodeum. It is a social wasp in the family Vespidae and subfamily Polistinae. The species is native to the United States from...

Hymenoptera: Vespidae) captured live in Arrowtown. Weta, 20: 9–13. PDF Nguyen, L.T.P.; F. Saito; J.I. Kojima & J.M. Carpenter, 2006, Vespidae of Viet Nam...

esuriens is a species of potter wasp found in tropical Asia, belonging to the Vespidae family. They can be separated from the similar looking Delta pyriforme...

as valid species. The genus Polistes is the largest genus in the family Vespidae and the only genus in the tribe Polistini.[citation needed] It is classified...

"Misidentification of Vespula alascensis as V. vulgaris in North America (Hymenoptera: Vespidae; Vespinae)" (PDF). AMNH Research Library Digital Repository. American Museum...

the North American continent. The genus Dolichovespula is in the family Vespidae. In North America, the genus is referred to as yellowjackets. The genus...

yellowjacket or widow yellowjacket, is a species of stinging wasp in the family Vespidae. "Vespula vidua species details". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-11...

Hymenopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part V. Vespidae. British Museum (Natural History). pp. 41–42. Buck, Matthias; Marshall...

genus Dolichovespula and a member of the eusocial, cosmopolitan family Vespidae. It is taxonomically an aerial yellowjacket but is known by many colloquial...

umbrella paper wasps. Polistes is the single largest genus within the family Vespidae, with over 200 recognized species. Their innate preferences for nest-building...

2015. This data has also been important to confirm the place of the wider Vespidae family in the Vespoidea superfamily, and confirms that Vespoidea is monophyletic...

(Hymenoptera: Vespidae) found in Michigan". Gt. Lakes Entomol. 29: 45–46. Buck, L.S.; Marshall, D.Cheung. "Identification Atlas of the Vespidae (Hymenoptera...

Euodynerus schwarzi is a nearctic species of potter wasp in the family Vespidae. "Euodynerus schwarzi species details". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-05...

Polistes bellicosus). It is listed in the Identification Atlas of the Vespidae of the Northeastern Nearctic Region as "species B". And in the NCBI Taxonomy...

Carpenter, James M. (2020). "An annotated distributional checklist of Vespidae (Hymenoptera: Vespoidea) of India". Zootaxa. 4784 (1): zootaxa.4784.1.1...

"Checklist of the species in the subfamily Vespinae (Insecta : Hymenoptera : Vespidae)". Nat Hist Bull Ibaraki Univ. 1: 51–92. Yamane, Seiki; Yamane, Sôichi...

Charterginus, Pseudochartergus, Pseudopolybia, Epipona, and Tatua (Hymenoptera, Vespidae)". Revista Brasileira de Entomologia. 9: 99–117. Yuri Campanholo Grandinete;...