Polistes stigma

Polistes stigma
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Vespidae
Subfamily:	Polistinae
Genus:	Polistes
Species:	P. stigma
Binomial name
	Polistes stigma; Fabricius, 1793

Polistes stigma is a species of paper wasp from Southeast Asia.^[1]It is primarily cursorial. There is a distinct yellow band on the abdomen. The terminal end of the nest is whitish in between greyish color. It's probably because the larva before pupation extends the cell wall & milky white end towards the top surface of the nest and then the larva seals it.This process is not seen in Ropalidia marginata.

Queen on the nest
Larva with jaws open
Egg and larvae

References[]

^ "Distributional Checklist of Species of the Genus Polistes (Hymenoptera: Vespidae; Polistinae, Polistini)" (PDF).

External links[]

Media related to Polistes stigma at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Polistes stigma at Wikispecies

[1] "Distributional Checklist of Species of the Genus Polistes (Hymenoptera: Vespidae; Polistinae, Polistini)" (PDF).

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