''Polistes flavus'', also known as the yellow paper wasp, is a species of
paper wasp
Paper wasps are Vespidae, vespid wasps that gather fibers from dead wood and plant stems, which they mix with saliva, and use to construct nests made of gray or brown papery material. Some types of paper wasps are also sometimes called umbrell ...
in the family
Vespidae
The Vespidae are a large (nearly 5000 species), diverse, cosmopolitan family of wasps, including nearly all the known eusocial wasps (such as ''Polistes fuscatus'', ''Vespa orientalis'', and ''Vespula germanica'') and many solitary wasps. Each ...
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flavus
Flavus is the Latin word for yellow or blond and has given the name to many, more or less yellow, objects:
* Subrius Flavus, a failed Roman conspirator against the Emperor Nero
* Flavus, brother of Arminius
See also
* Flavius
* Flava (disambig ...
Insects described in 1868
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