The Paper Wasps and Hornets of Florida (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Polistinae & Vespinae) By Hugo Kons Jr. & Rex Rowan

APPENDIX G: External Structural Characters of Florida Polistinae

Version 2018.1

External structural characters for identifying Polistes rubiginosus, P. hirsuticornis, P. parametricus, and P. dorsalis are from Buck et al. (2008).

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Note: Buck et al. (2012) stated some P. hirsuticornis have a the pronotal fovea present as a small superficial depression and a single female had a small but deep fovea. All eight P. hirsuticornis (or species near) we collected in Florida lack the fovea.

Note: Buck et al. (2012) stated that in P. parametricus the propodeal oirifice is usually wide and gradually narrowing dorsally, but is sometimes abruptly narrowing as in P. hirsuticornis. Of the seven additional specimens we examined, six are like the former and one like the latter.