Polistes parametricus
| Polistes | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Vespidae |
| Subfamily: | Polistinae |
| Tribe: | Polistini Lepeletier, 1836 |
| Genus: | Polistes Latreille, 1802 |
| Type species | |
| Polistes parametricus Matthias Buck et al., 2012 [1] | |
This species was described in 2012. It was previously recognized as belonging in P. fuscatus-group (Polistes fuscatus, Polistes metricus, 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 as Polistes sp. Buck2.
It is likely to be an obligate parasite of other social wasps, but no documented observation of this behavior have been made.[1]
References
- 1 2 Matthias Buck, Tyler P. Cobb, Julie K. Stahlhut and 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
External links
- Bugguide
- Identification Atlas of the Vespidae (Hymenoptera, Aculeata) of the northeastern Nearctic region
- NCBI Taxonomy
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