Polistes {genus} - Arthropoda; Insecta; Hymenoptera; Vespidae; Polistinae; Polistini;

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Sub-taxa

Species (130)
  1. Polistes actaeon [2]
  2. Polistes adsimilis [1]
  3. Polistes aff. gallicus 126 [1]
  4. Polistes aff. gallicus 129 [1]
  5. Polistes africanus [4]
  6. Polistes albellus [12]
  7. Polistes annularis [8]
  8. Polistes apachus [29]
  9. Polistes apicalis [3]
  10. Polistes arizonensis [1]
  11. Polistes associus [15]
  12. Polistes aterrimus [6]
  13. Polistes atrimandibularis [9]
  14. Polistes aurifer [131]
  15. Polistes austroccidentalis [5]
  16. Polistes bahamensis [15]
  17. Polistes bellicosus [58]
  18. Polistes bicolor [8]
  19. Polistes biglumis [95]
  20. Polistes biguttatus [3]
  21. Polistes billardieri [1]
  22. Polistes bischoffi [35]
  23. Polistes brunetus [9]
  24. Polistes brunus [8]
  25. Polistes bucharensis [40]
  26. Polistes buyssoni [31]
  27. Polistes canadensis [22]
  28. Polistes carnifex [15]
  29. Polistes carolina [24]
  30. Polistes cavapyta [10]
  31. Polistes cf. fuscatus [1]
  32. Polistes cf. rubiginosus [4]
  33. Polistes chinensis [70]
  34. Polistes chuyangsin [3]
  35. Polistes cinerascens [4]
  36. Polistes clandestinus [4]
  37. Polistes comanchus [24]
  38. Polistes communalis [2]
  39. Polistes consobrinus [1]
  40. Polistes crinitus [11]
  41. Polistes curcipunctum [2]
  42. Polistes dawnae [2]
  43. Polistes deceptor [8]
  44. Polistes diakonovi [5]
  45. Polistes dominula [455]
  46. Polistes dominulus [4]
  47. Polistes dorsalis [104]
  48. Polistes erythrocephalus [12]
  49. Polistes exclamans [36]
  50. Polistes flavus [11]
  51. Polistes foederatus [34]
  52. Polistes formosanus [15]
  53. Polistes fuscatus [369]
  54. Polistes gallicus [88]
  55. Polistes geminatus [3]
  56. Polistes gigas [3]
  57. Polistes gilvus [2]
  58. Polistes goeldii [1]
  59. Polistes hellenicus [12]
  60. Polistes helveticus [42]
  61. Polistes hirsuticornis [10]
  62. Polistes humilis [17]
  63. Polistes indicus [18]
  64. Polistes infuscatus [1]
  65. Polistes instabilis [101]
  66. Polistes japonicus [25]
  67. Polistes jokahamae [10]
  68. Polistes lanio [17]
  69. Polistes lepcha [1]
  70. Polistes longus [3]
  71. Polistes major [27]
  72. Polistes marginalis [13]
  73. Polistes maroccanus [1]
  74. Polistes melanotus [1]
  75. Polistes metricus [98]
  76. Polistes minor [1]
  77. Polistes mongolicus [79]
  78. Polistes myersi [8]
  79. Polistes nigerrimus [2]
  80. Polistes nimpha [102]
  81. Polistes nimphus [12]
  82. Polistes nipponensis [7]
  83. Polistes occipitalis [3]
  84. Polistes olivaceus [174]
  85. Polistes pacificus [29]
  86. Polistes pallidus [1]
  87. Polistes parametricus [17]
  88. Polistes perplexus [3]
  89. Polistes poeyi [3]
  90. Polistes quadricingulatus [20]
  91. Polistes reliciniclypeus [4]
  92. Polistes riparius [2]
  93. Polistes rothneyi [20]
  94. Polistes rubiginosus [24]
  95. Polistes sagittarius [2]
  96. Polistes satan [2]
  97. Polistes schach [2]
  98. Polistes semenowi [9]
  99. Polistes simillimus [5]
  100. Polistes snelleni [18]
  101. Polistes sp. [8]
  102. Polistes sp. 1HMC [26]
  103. Polistes sp. 2HMC [3]
  104. Polistes sp. 3 [11]
  105. Polistes sp. 3HMC [3]
  106. Polistes sp. 4 [1]
  107. Polistes sp. 4HMC [11]
  108. Polistes sp. 5 [2]
  109. Polistes sp. 5HMC [9]
  110. Polistes sp. 6HMC [6]
  111. Polistes sp. 7HMC [13]
  112. Polistes sp. 8HMC [1]
  113. Polistes sp. 9DFW [4]
  114. Polistes sp. Buck-3 [12]
  115. Polistes sp. Buck-5 [94]
  116. Polistes sp. JKK Pol-09 [1]
  117. Polistes sp. JKK Pol-10 [1]
  118. Polistes sp. JKK Pol-11 [1]
  119. Polistes sp. MD1 [1]
  120. Polistes sp. O88 [1]
  121. Polistes sp. TT_29 [2]
  122. Polistes stigma [24]
  123. Polistes strigosus [1]
  124. Polistes sulcifer [8]
  125. Polistes tenebricosus [6]
  126. Polistes testaceicolor [3]
  127. Polistes texanus [11]
  128. Polistes variabilis [1]
  129. Polistes versicolor [36]
  130. Polistes wattii [80]

Taxon Description (Wikipedia)

BOLD Stats

Specimen Records: 3,756 Public Records: 2,642
Specimens with Sequences: 3,430 Public Species: 112
Specimens with Barcodes: 3,173 Public BINs: 134
Species: 130          
Species With Barcodes: 102          
           

Contributors (Specimens & Sequencing)

Specimen Depositories: Sequencing Labs:
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Imagery

images representing subtaxa of Polistes
(Polistes adsimilis - IEBR-Ves-58) @11 [ ] by-nc-sa (2021) SNSB, Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns ZSM (SNSB, Zoologische Staatssammlung Muenchen) (Polistes albellus - BC ZSM HYM 22709) @14 [ ] CreativeCommons - Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike (2015) SNSB, Zoologische Staatssammlung Muenchen SNSB, Zoologische Staatssammlung Muenchen (Polistes annularis - BIOUG02463-H03) @14 [ ] CreativeCommons - Attribution (2013) CBG Photography Group Centre for Biodiversity Genomics
(Polistes apachus - AWC-07898) @14 [ ] CreativeCommons - Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike (2010) Tim Whittier Arizona Western College (Polistes associus - BC ZSM HYM 15524) @14 [ ] CreativeCommons - Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike (2015) SNSB, Zoologische Staatssammlung Muenchen SNSB, Zoologische Staatssammlung Muenchen (Polistes aterrimus - INBIOCRI002395040) @13 [ ] Copyright (2012) Braulio Hernandez Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad
(Polistes atrimandibularis - BC ZSM HYM 05020) @14 [ ] CreativeCommons - Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike (2014) Stefan Schmidt SNSB, Zoologische Staatssammlung Muenchen (Polistes aurifer - PMAE0511) @13 [ ] CreativeCommons - Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike (2015) Royal Alberta Museum Royal Alberta Museum (Polistes austroccidentalis - BC ZSM HYM 15527) @14 [ ] CreativeCommons - Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike (2015) SNSB, Zoologische Staatssammlung Muenchen SNSB, Zoologische Staatssammlung Muenchen
(Polistes bahamensis - BIOUG02476-A04) @15 [ ] CreativeCommons - Attribution (2013) CBG Photography Group Centre for Biodiversity Genomics (Polistes bellicosus - PMAE0495) @14 [ ] CreativeCommons - Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike (2015) Royal Alberta Museum Royal Alberta Museum (Polistes bicolor - INB0003333205) @13 [ ] Copyright (2012) Braulio Hernandez Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad
(Polistes biglumis - BC ZSM HYM 19401) @14 [ ] CreativeCommons - Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike (2015) SNSB, Zoologische Staatssammlung Muenchen SNSB, Zoologische Staatssammlung Muenchen (Polistes bischoffi - BC ZSM HYM 24024) @14 [ ] CreativeCommons - Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike (2015) SNSB, Zoologische Staatssammlung Muenchen SNSB, Zoologische Staatssammlung Muenchen (Polistes brunetus - CBG-A25949-A07) @11 [ ] CreativeCommons - Attribution Share-Alike (2024) CBG Photography Group Centre for Biodiversity Genomics
(Polistes brunus - IEBR-Ves-61) @11 [ ] by-nc-sa (2021) SNSB, Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns ZSM (SNSB, Zoologische Staatssammlung Muenchen) (Polistes bucharensis - BIOUG14518-H03) @15 [ ] CreativeCommons - Attribution (2019) CBG Photography Group Centre for Biodiversity Genomics (Polistes buyssoni - BONVB-0275) @13 [ ] Unspecified (default): All Rights Reserved Unspecified Unspecified
(Polistes canadensis - INBIOCRI001180714) @14 [ ] Copyright (2012) Braulio Hernandez Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (Polistes carnifex - INBIOCRI002215807) @14 [ ] Copyright (2012) Braulio Hernandez Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (Polistes carolina - 09BBHYM-1193) @15 [ ] CreativeCommons - Attribution (2010) CBG Photography Group Centre for Biodiversity Genomics
(Polistes cavapyta - MACN-Bar-Ins-ct 00606) @14 [ ] Copyright (2011) MACN Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia" (Polistes cf. fuscatus - PMAE0720) @13 [ ] CreativeCommons - Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike (2019) Royal Alberta Museum Royal Alberta Museum (Polistes cf. rubiginosus - PMAE0649) @13 [ ] CreativeCommons - Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike (2017) Royal Alberta Museum Royal Alberta Museum
(Polistes chinensis - BJMTG2020013) @11 [ ] Unspecified (default): All Rights Reserved Unspecified Unspecified (Polistes chuyangsin - IEBR-Ves-63) @11 [ ] by-nc-sa (2021) SNSB, Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns ZSM (SNSB, Zoologische Staatssammlung Muenchen) (Polistes clandestinus - IEBR-Ves-104) @11 [ ] Copyright (2024) Unspecified University of Science, Vietnam National University, Hanoi
(Polistes comanchus - PMAE0282) @11 [ ] Unspecified (default): All Rights Reserved Unspecified Unspecified (Polistes communalis - IEBR-Ves-79) @11 [ ] Copyright (2024) Unspecified University of Science, Vietnam National University, Hanoi (Polistes crinitus - BC-LPRIG-3166) @11 [ ] CC-By (2025) Rodolphe Rougerie MNHN
(Polistes curcipunctum - IEBR-Ves-92) @11 [ ] Copyright (2024) Unspecified University of Science, Vietnam National University, Hanoi (Polistes deceptor - INBIOCRI002549282) @13 [ ] Copyright (2012) Braulio Hernandez Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (Polistes dominula - CCDB-ST02852) @15 [ ] CreativeCommons - Attribution CBG Photography Group Unspecified
(Polistes dominulus - ABOL-24-1043) @11 [ ] Unspecified (default): All Rights Reserved (2024) Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum (OLML) Unspecified (Polistes dorsalis - INBIOCRI001331665) @13 [ ] Copyright (2012) Braulio Hernandez Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (Polistes erythrocephalus - INBIOCRI002559780) @14 [ ] Copyright (2012) Braulio Hernandez Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad
(Polistes exclamans - BIOUG02476-A08) @14 [ ] CreativeCommons - Attribution (2013) CBG Photography Group Centre for Biodiversity Genomics (Polistes flavus - PMAE0036) @13 [ ] Unspecified (default): All Rights Reserved Unspecified Unspecified (Polistes foederatus - BC-ZSM-HYM-30223-C12) @15 [ ] CreativeCommons - Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike (2019) SNSB, Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns ZSM (SNSB, Zoologische Staatssammlung Muenchen)
(Polistes fuscatus - BIOUG01282-E02) @15 [ ] CreativeCommons - Attribution (2012) CBG Photography Group Centre for Biodiversity Genomics (Polistes gallicus - BC-ZSM-HYM-29768-A07) @15 [ ] CreativeCommons - Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike (2018) SNSB, Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns ZSM (SNSB, Zoologische Staatssammlung Muenchen) (Polistes gigas - ZSM-HYM-29810-B09) @11 [ ] by-nc-sa (2021) SNSB, Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns ZSM (SNSB, Zoologische Staatssammlung Muenchen)
(Polistes gilvus - IEBR-Ves-107) @11 [ ] Copyright (2024) Unspecified University of Science, Vietnam National University, Hanoi (Polistes helveticus - ABOL-24-1046) @11 [ ] Unspecified (default): All Rights Reserved (2024) Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum (OLML) Unspecified (Polistes hirsuticornis - PMAE0105) @11 [ ] Unspecified (default): All Rights Reserved Unspecified Unspecified
(Polistes humilis - BIOUG02953-B07) @15 [ ] CreativeCommons - Attribution (2013) CBG Photography Group Centre for Biodiversity Genomics (Polistes indicus - NIBGE HYM-00497) @11 [ ] CreativeCommons - Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike (2011) Muhammad Ashfaq National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering Faisalabad Pakistan (Polistes instabilis - PK-MEX07- 152) @15 [ ] CreativeCommons - Attribution (2008) CBG Photography Group Centre for Biodiversity Genomics
(Polistes japonicus - 18TBK-029) @12 [ ] Copyright (2019) Komine Yukio Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties (Polistes jokahamae - 19TBK-050) @11 [ ] Copyright (2019) Komine Yukio Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties (Polistes lanio - MACN-Bar-Ins-ct 01584) @13 [ ] Copyright (2011) MACN Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia"
(Polistes lepcha - ZSM-HYM-29810-B04) @11 [ ] by-nc-sa (2021) SNSB, Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns ZSM (SNSB, Zoologische Staatssammlung Muenchen) (Polistes longus - IEBR-Ves-57) @11 [ ] by-nc-sa (2021) SNSB, Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns ZSM (SNSB, Zoologische Staatssammlung Muenchen) (Polistes major - INB0003056334) @14 [ ] Copyright (2012) Braulio Hernandez Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad
(Polistes marginalis - BIOUG09150-A04) @15 [ ] CreativeCommons - Attribution (2014) CBG Photography Group Centre for Biodiversity Genomics (Polistes maroccanus - BC ZSM HYM 22043) @12 [ ] CreativeCommons - Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike (2015) SNSB, Zoologische Staatssammlung Muenchen SNSB, Zoologische Staatssammlung Muenchen (Polistes metricus - 10BBHYM-0913) @15 [ ] CreativeCommons - Attribution (2010) CBG Photography Group Centre for Biodiversity Genomics
(Polistes mongolicus - BC ZSM HYM 17496) @14 [ ] CreativeCommons - Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike (2015) SNSB, Zoologische Staatssammlung Muenchen SNSB, Zoologische Staatssammlung Muenchen (Polistes myersi - INB0003756747) @14 [ ] Copyright (2012) Braulio Hernandez Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (Polistes nigerrimus - IEBR-Ves-96) @11 [ ] Copyright (2024) Unspecified University of Science, Vietnam National University, Hanoi
(Polistes nimpha - BIOUG15150-F09) @15 [ ] CreativeCommons - Attribution (2019) CBG Photography Group Centre for Biodiversity Genomics (Polistes nimphus - ZFMK-TIS-2603595) @11 [ ] CreativeCommons – Attribution Share-Alike (by-sa) 818 (2017) Unspecified Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig (Polistes olivaceus - BIOUG23048-D01) @15 [ ] CreativeCommons - Attribution (2016) CBG Photography Group Centre for Biodiversity Genomics
(Polistes pacificus - INBIOCRI001333303) @13 [ ] Copyright (2012) Braulio Hernandez Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (Polistes pallidus - IEBR-Ves-73) @11 [ ] by-nc-sa (2021) SNSB, Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns ZSM (SNSB, Zoologische Staatssammlung Muenchen) (Polistes parametricus - PMAE0106) @13 [ ] Unspecified (default): All Rights Reserved Unspecified Unspecified
(Polistes quadricingulatus - NIBGE HYM-00021) @13 [ ] CreativeCommons - Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike (2010) Muhammad Ashfaq National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering Faisalabad Pakistan (Polistes reliciniclypeus - IEBR-Ves-94) @11 [ ] Copyright (2024) Unspecified University of Science, Vietnam National University, Hanoi (Polistes rothneyi - BIOUG25661-F03) @15 [ ] CreativeCommons - Attribution (2016) CBG Photography Group Centre for Biodiversity Genomics
(Polistes rubiginosus - 09BBHYM-408) @15 [ ] CreativeCommons - Attribution (2009) CBG Photography Group Centre for Biodiversity Genomics (Polistes schach - IB_495) @11 [ ] Unspecified (default): All Rights Reserved Unspecified Unspecified (Polistes semenowi - BC ZSM HYM 15530) @14 [ ] CreativeCommons - Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike (2015) SNSB, Zoologische Staatssammlung Muenchen SNSB, Zoologische Staatssammlung Muenchen
(Polistes snelleni - BIOUG26952-A04) @15 [ ] CreativeCommons - Attribution (2017) CBG Photography Group Centre for Biodiversity Genomics (Polistes sp. 1HMC - Vesp-0194) @11 [ ] Copyright Unspecified Unspecified (Polistes sp. 2HMC - Vesp-0217) @11 [ ] Copyright Unspecified Unspecified
(Polistes sp. 3 - BONVB-0263) @11 [ ] Unspecified (default): All Rights Reserved Unspecified Unspecified (Polistes sp. 3HMC - Vesp-0221) @11 [ ] Copyright Unspecified Unspecified (Polistes sp. 4 - BONVB-0124) @11 [ ] Unspecified (default): All Rights Reserved Unspecified Unspecified
(Polistes sp. 4HMC - Vesp-0227) @11 [ ] Copyright Unspecified Unspecified (Polistes sp. 5 - BONVB-0219) @11 [ ] Unspecified (default): All Rights Reserved Unspecified Unspecified (Polistes sp. 5HMC - Vesp-0238) @11 [ ] Copyright Unspecified Unspecified
(Polistes sp. 6HMC - Vesp-0244) @11 [ ] Copyright Unspecified Unspecified (Polistes sp. 7HMC - Vesp-0254) @11 [ ] Copyright Unspecified Unspecified (Polistes sp. 8HMC - Vesp-0249) @11 [ ] Copyright Unspecified Unspecified
(Polistes sp. Buck-3 - BIOUG02464-A04) @15 [ ] CreativeCommons - Attribution (2016) CBG Photography Group Centre for Biodiversity Genomics (Polistes sp. Buck-5 - 09BBHYM-1196) @14 [ ] CreativeCommons - Attribution (2010) CBG Photography Group Centre for Biodiversity Genomics (Polistes stigma - gvc17058-1L) @14 [ ] CreativeCommons - Attribution (2012) CBG Photography Group Centre for Biodiversity Genomics
(Polistes sulcifer - ACcoll19003) @11 [ ] Department of Biology (2019) Dapporto, Leonardo University of Florence (Polistes texanus - PMAE0159) @13 [ ] Unspecified (default): All Rights Reserved Unspecified Unspecified (Polistes versicolor - 08ATPNI-00021) @14 [ ] CreativeCommons - Attribution Non-Commercial (2009) Pablo Tubaro Unspecified
(Polistes wattii - NIBGE IMB-00108) @15 [ ] CreativeCommons - Attribution Non-Commercial (2009) Muhammad Ashfaq, NIBGE Unspecified
(Polistes wattii)
  Sample ID:
NIBGE IMB-00108
  License:
CreativeCommons - Attribution Non-Commercial (2009)
  License Holder:
Muhammad Ashfaq, NIBGE, Unspecified

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