Distribution
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South Africa, Mozambique, Tanzania (including Zanzibar).
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Biology |
Social, constructing communal, vertically
orientated paper nests with horizontally orientated cells. (Polistes
construct horizontally orientated combs with vertically orientated
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 American
Museum of Natural History 39: 1-384. |
Credits
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Photograph © Karen Eichholz
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/32485819
Map Illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).
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