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Polistes sp (dominula o gallicus) (Polistes dominula)
cat: Vespa; esp: Avispa; eng: European paper wasp
Bagà-Catalonia-Spain
Long: 15 mm
phylum: Arthropoda > (Unirramia) > Hexapoda > class: Insecta > (Pterygota) > (Neoptera) > Endopterygota > order: Hymenoptera > (Apocrita) > (Aculeata-Vespoidea) > family: Vespidae
Polistes dominula (the European paper wasp), is one of the more common and well-known species of social wasps in Europe. Polistes gallicus is a fairly common species of European paper wasp, almost indistinguishable from the Polistes dominula, with which it had long been confused. The name paper wasp is because the nest is made from cellulosa.
Polistes sp (dominula o gallicus) (Polistes dominula)
cat: Vespa; esp: Avispa; eng: European paper wasp
Bagà-Catalonia-Spain
Long: 15 mm
phylum: Arthropoda > (Unirramia) > Hexapoda > class: Insecta > (Pterygota) > (Neoptera) > Endopterygota > order: Hymenoptera > (Apocrita) > (Aculeata-Vespoidea) > family: Vespidae
Polistes dominula (the European paper wasp), is one of the more common and well-known species of social wasps in Europe. Polistes gallicus is a fairly common species of European paper wasp, almost indistinguishable from the Polistes dominula, with which it had long been confused. The name paper wasp is because the nest is made from cellulosa.
Polistes sp (dominula o gallicus) (Polistes dominula)
cat: Vespa; esp: Avispa; eng: European paper wasp
Bagà-Catalonia-Spain
Long: 15 mm
phylum: Arthropoda > (Unirramia) > Hexapoda > class: Insecta > (Pterygota) > (Neoptera) > Endopterygota > order: Hymenoptera > (Apocrita) > (Aculeata-Vespoidea) > family: Vespidae
Polistes dominula (the European paper wasp), is one of the more common and well-known species of social wasps in Europe. Polistes gallicus is a fairly common species of European paper wasp, almost indistinguishable from the Polistes dominula, with which it had long been confused. The name paper wasp is because the nest is made from cellulosa.
Vespa (Polistes nimpha)
cat: Vespa; esp: Avispa; eng: Wasp
Bagà-Catalonia-Spain
Long: 15 mm
phylum: Arthropoda > (Unirramia) > Hexapoda > class: Insecta > (Pterygota) > (Neoptera) > Endopterygota > order: Hymenoptera > (Apocrita) > (Aculeata-Vespoidea) > family: Vespidae
difficult ID.
Vespa (Polistes nimpha)
cat: Vespa; esp: Avispa; eng: Wasp
Bagà-Catalonia-Spain
Long: 15 mm
phylum: Arthropoda > (Unirramia) > Hexapoda > class: Insecta > (Pterygota) > (Neoptera) > Endopterygota > order: Hymenoptera > (Apocrita) > (Aculeata-Vespoidea) > family: Vespidae
difficult ID.
Polistes nimpha
cat: Vespa; esp: Avispa; eng: Wasp
Puigcerdà-Catalonia-Spain
phylum: Arthropoda > (Unirramia) > Hexapoda > class: Insecta > (Pterygota) > (Neoptera) > Endopterygota > order: Hymenoptera > (Apocrita) > (Aculeata-Vespoidea) > family: Vespidae
difficult ID.
Trichodes apiarius, Chlorophorus varius and Polistes sp sharing a flower
cat: Trichodes apiarius; esp: Trichodes apiarius; eng: Checkered beetle, bee beetle
Bagà-Catalonia-Spain
phylum: Arthropoda > (Unirramia) > Hexapoda > class: Insecta > (Pterygota) > (Neoptera) > Endopterygota > order: Coleoptera > (Polyphaga) > (Cucujiformia-Cleroidea) > family: Cleridae
It is an hairy small beetle with shining blue or black head and scutellum. The elongated elytra show a bright red colour with black bands. This species can easily be distinguished from Trichodes alvearius for the black terminal band reaching the apex of elytra.
