Vespidae
| Main Authors: | Siddiqui, Junaid Ali, Bodlah, Imran, Carpenter, James M., Naeem, Muhammad, Ahmad, Munir, Bodlah, Muhammad Adnan |
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| Format: | info publication-taxonomictreatment Journal |
| Terbitan: |
, 2015
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| Online Access: |
https://zenodo.org/record/6095158 |
Daftar Isi:
- Family Vespidae The Vespidae (Hymenoptera) is a cosmopolitan, diverse and large family of wasps including about 5000 species worldwide (Aguiar et al. 2013). These wasps are social, eusocial and solitary. Vespidae is further divided into six subfamilies Eumeninae, Euparagiinae, Polistinae, Stenogastrinae, Masarinae and Vespinae (Carpenter 1982, Pickett & Carpenter 2010). Adults are predominantly reddish, brownish or black with dense white or yellow markings. The majority of the species are solitary, but various are social. The immatures are usually predators on other insects.
- Published as part of Siddiqui, Junaid Ali, Bodlah, Imran, Carpenter, James M., Naeem, Muhammad, Ahmad, Munir & Bodlah, Muhammad Adnan, 2015, Vespidae (Hymenoptera) of the Pothwar region of Punjab, Pakistan, pp. 501-524 in Zootaxa 3914 (5) on page 502, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3914.5.1, http://zenodo.org/record/241739