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Home Kingdom Animalia Phylum Arthropoda Class Insecta Order Hymenoptera Suborder Apocrita Family Vespidae

Family Vespidae
(hornets, hornets and yellowjackets, paper wasps, potter wasps, and yellowjackets)



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Scientific names for Aves taxonomy (family and below) are from The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World, Princeton University Press, copyright 2003. Used by permission.


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Citation: Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2008. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed at http://animaldiversity.org.

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