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SpeciesHymenopteraEumenidae
Arthropods

🪲Polistes carnifex

Polistes carnifex (Fabricius, 1775)

Polistes carnifex, commonly known as the executioner wasp or executioner paper wasp, is a neotropical vespid wasp in the cosmopolitan genus Polistes.

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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumArthropoda
  3. ›classInsecta
  4. ›orderHymenoptera
  5. ›familyEumenidae
  6. ›genusPolistes
  7. ›speciesPolistes carnifex
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  1. classInsects · Insecta
  2. orderAnts, bees & wasps · Hymenoptera
  3. tribePolistini
  4. genusPolistes
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. subphylumHexapoda
  4. classInsects · Insecta
  5. subclassPterygota
  6. orderAnts, bees & wasps · Hymenoptera
  7. superfamilyVespoidea
  8. familyVespidae
  9. tribePolistini
  10. genusPolistes
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Photograph of a polistes carnifexPolistes carnifex Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico 15 August 2015 Francisco Farriols Sarabia
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