Global InformationPolistes carnifex information
| Polistes carnifex | |
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| Female P. carnifex from Mazatlán, Mexico | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Vespidae |
| Subfamily: | Polistinae |
| Tribe: | Polistini |
| Genus: | Polistes |
| Species: | P. carnifex
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| Binomial name | |
| Polistes carnifex (Fabricius, 1775)[1]
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Polistes carnifex, commonly known as the executioner wasp or executioner paper wasp, is a neotropical vespid wasp in the cosmopolitan genus Polistes.
It is a very large yellow and brown paper wasp with a mandible that contains teeth.[5] It establishes small colonies, founded by solitary queens, which build nests under the eaves of buildings or suspended from branches.[6] Foraging adults bring nectar and macerated prey back to the nest to feed to the developing larvae which are individually housed in separate cells in the nest.[6]
- ^ Waldren, George (2012-10-22). "Species Polistes carnifex". BugGuide. Iowa State University. Retrieved 2013-11-09.
- ^ "Polistes carnifex". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
- ^ Snelling, Roy R. (14 January 1955). "Notes on Some Polistes in the American Museum of Natural History with Descriptions of New North American Subspecies (Hymenoptera, Vespidae)". American Museum Novitates (1701): 3–4. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.829.3913.
- ^ de Saussure, Henri Louis Frédéric (1853). Études sur la Famille des Vespides. 2. Monographie des Guêpes Sociales, ou de la Tribu des Vespiens, ouvrage faisant suite à la Monographies des Guêpes Solitaires (in French). Vol. 2. Paris: V. Masson. p. 90. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.39973.
- ^ Silveira, Orlando Tobias; dos Santos Jr., José Nazareno Araújo (2011). "Comparative morphology of the mandibles of female polistine social wasps (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Polistinae)". Revista Brasileira de Entomologia. 55 (4): 479–500. doi:10.1590/S0085-56262011000400004.
- ^ a b Corn, Mary L. (1972). "Notes on the Biology of Polistes carnifex (Hymenoptera, Vespidae) in Costa Rica and Colombia". Psyche: A Journal of Entomology. 79 (3): 150–157. doi:10.1155/1972/78756.