Vespidae

Siddiqui, Junaid Ali, Bodlah, Imran, Carpenter, James M., Naeem, Muhammad, Ahmad, Munir & Bodlah, Muhammad Adnan, 2015, Vespidae (Hymenoptera) of the Pothwar region of Punjab, Pakistan, Zootaxa 3914 (5), pp. 501-524 : 502

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3914.5.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:64BD9B4F-97A5-4D1E-84FA-EF3947FAD569

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6095158

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/038A3B2F-A719-8E05-FF24-2FA5FE8A89B7

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Vespidae
status

 

Family Vespidae View in CoL View at ENA

The Vespidae (Hymenoptera) View in CoL is a cosmopolitan, diverse and large family of wasps including about 5000 species worldwide ( Aguiar et al. 2013). These wasps are social, eusocial and solitary. Vespidae View in CoL is further divided into six subfamilies Eumeninae , Euparagiinae , Polistinae , Stenogastrinae , Masarinae and Vespinae ( Carpenter 1982, Pickett & Carpenter 2010). Adults are predominantly reddish, brownish or black with dense white or yellow markings. The majority of the species are solitary, but various are social. The immatures are usually predators on other insects.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Vespidae

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