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    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...
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    1853 Polistes diakonovi Kostylev, 1940 Polistes dominicus (Vallot, 1802) Polistes dominula (Christ, 1791) Polistes dorsalis (Fabricius, 1775) Polistes dorsalis...
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    Approximately 300 species of Polistes paper wasps have been identified worldwide. The most common paper wasp in Europe is Polistes dominula. The Old World tribe...
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    confused with other wasps, such as hornets and paper wasps such as Polistes dominula. A typical yellowjacket worker is about 12 mm (0.47 in) long, with...
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    known Polistes obligate social parasites, sometimes referred to as "cuckoo paper wasps", and its host is the congeneric species Polistes dominula. As an...
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    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...
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    brood-parasitic wasps is Polistes semenowi.. This paper wasp has lost the ability to build its own nest, and relies on its host, P. dominula, to raise its brood...
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    Strepsiptera that are endoparasites of paper wasps in the genus Polistes (most commonly Polistes dominula) that was first described in 1793. Like other members...
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    obligate parasites in the subgenus Polistes, it uses the nests of other paper wasps (primarily Polistes dominula) to rear its young. To evade detection...
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    weathering over time. P. gallicus, like other members of the subgenus Polistes (Polistes), has recognizable, bright yellow and black markings. They have smaller...
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    relative, Polistes dominula. One may distinguish between closely related Polistes species by comparing the color traits. Wasps of the genus Polistes (Latreille...
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    haplodiploid insects, as are other Polistes species including Polistes metricus, Polistes dominula, and Polistes annularis. This means they have haploid...
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    parasite is the paper wasp Polistes sulcifer, which lays its eggs in the nests of other paper wasps (specifically Polistes dominula), and whose larvae are...
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    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...
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    Vespula are often confused with other genera, especially the paper wasp Polistes dominula. Colonies of V. germanica share many characteristics with those of...
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    Polistes atrimandibularis is one of four obligate social parasites among the Polistes wasps found in Europe. Of the four social paper wasp parasite species...
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    effects on the ecosystems invaded by, for example, Vespa velutina and Polistes dominula, there is a call to keep an eye on the population and to monitor its...
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  • Cuckoo paper wasp (category Polistes)
    related to Polistes nimpha and Polistes dominula (the latter being host to at least three of the four species) than to Polistes gallicus or Polistes biglumis...
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    crabro and Polistes spp.) can harbor yeast cells from autumn to spring and transmit them to their progeny. The intestine of Polistes dominula, a social...
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    generations, and cooperative care for offspring. Polistes metricus, like Polistes dominula and Polistes annularis, differs from many other advanced eusocial...
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    However, not all social insects follow this rule. In the social wasp Polistes dominula, 35% of the nest mates are unrelated. In many other species, unrelated...
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    predators of Epargyreus clarus include the paper wasp foragers Polistes fuscatus and Polistes dominula, as well as Crematogaster opuntiae ants. Studies have found...
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  • In the cleptoparasitic paper wasp Polistes semenowi the female usurps the host foundress, usually Polistes dominula and uses an enlarged Van der Vecht's...
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  • Green orchid bee from Central America to Florida Vespula germanica Polistes dominula Sirex woodwasp Selitrichodes globulus Acrolepiopsis assectella (leek...
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    (May 2021). Feasibility of successful biological control of paper wasps, Polistes spp (PDF) (Report). Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research. Retrieved 17 January...
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    parameters of Polistes and Mischocyttarus species (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) before and after detection of the invasive wasp, Polistes dominula in western South...
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  • solenopsis (cotton mealybug) [36] Pineus pini (pine woolly aphid) [37] Polistes dominula (European paper wasp [38] Prostephanus truncatus (larger grain borer)...
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    Insekten vom Bienen, Wespen und Ameisengeschlecht. In 1791, he described Polistes dominula. He also studied fruit trees and wrote Vollständige Pomologie (2 volumes...
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    created by animals to prevent predation are those of the paper wasps, Polistes chinensis antennalis. The nests of these wasps contain “defensive structures”...
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    Polistinae is paper wasp. Many polistines, such as Polistes fuscatus, Polistes annularis, and Polistes exclamans, make their nests out of paper. Despite...
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