Female from Diep River,
Cape Town. |
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Male from Diep River,
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Nest with mostly females
(single darker male in the middle) from Diep River, Cape Town. |
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Female from Heidelberg
Gauteng. |
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Distribution
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Congo, Mozambique, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa,
Tanzania (including Zanzibar), Zambia, Zimbabwe. |
Biology |
Social, constructing communal paper nests comprising a
single comb with downward pointing cells. Larvae are fed
on chewed-up, soft-bodied insects such as caterpillars. See
Polistinae
Paper wasp home page for more details. |
Reference |
Bequaert, J.C. 1918.
A revision of the Vespidae of the Belgian Congo based on the collection of the
American Museum Congo Expedition: with a list of Ethiopian diplopterous wasps.
Bulletin of the AMNH 39: 1-384. |
Credits
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Photographs
© Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).
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