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| Polistes hirsuticornis | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Vespidae |
| Subfamily: | Polistinae |
| Tribe: | Polistini |
| Genus: | Polistes |
| Species: | P. hirsuticornis
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| Binomial name | |
| Polistes hirsuticornis | |
Polistes hirsuticornis is a species of paper wasp found in North America and described in 2012. Individuals were previously treated under several other species within the P. fuscatus-group (Polistes fuscatus, Polistes metricus, and Polistes bellicosus).[1]
Diagnostic information can be found in the Identification Atlas of the Vespidae of the Northeastern Nearctic Region as "Polistes sp. A".[2] It appears in the NCBI taxonomy as Polistes sp. Buck1.[citation needed]
This species is believed to be an obligate parasite of other social wasps,[1] but no documented observations of this behavior have been made.[citation needed]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Matthias Buck; Tyler P. Cobb; Julie K. Stahlhut; Robert H. Hanner (2008), "Unravelling cryptic species diversity in eastern Nearctic paper wasps, Polistes (Fuscopolistes), using male genitalia, morphometrics and DNA barcoding, with descriptions of two new species (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)" (PDF), Zootaxa, 3502: 1–48
- ^ "Polistes sp. A". cjai.biologicalsurvey.ca. Retrieved 2025-07-20.