Polistes carnifex, commonly known as the executioner wasp or executioner paper wasp, is a neotropical vespid wasp in the cosmopolitan genus Polistes. It...
color. The typical form often can be confused with Polistes fuscatus, Polistes crinitus, or Polistes minor. The variable form is red-brown in coloring...
old synonym of P. lanio by Fernand Anatole Meunier, he further placed it in a "species group 1". Two subspecies are accepted: Polistes comanchus ssp. comanchus...
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