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Veracruz Paper Wasp

Polistes veracrucis

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Mexico.

Mexico	146
Nuevo Leon	73
Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave	38
Oaxaca	10
Puebla	8
Hidalgo	4
Mexico	3
Chiapas	2
San Luis Potosi	2
Tamaulipas	2

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Behavioral

EusocialLives in colonies with division of labor and cooperative brood careFrom its classification

Physical

ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Practical

StingingCan deliver a painful stingFrom its classification

Classification

Kingdom	Animals · Animalia
Phylum	Arthropods · Arthropoda
Class	Insects · Insecta
Order	Ants, Bees, Wasps, and Sawflies · Hymenoptera
Family	Hornets, Paper Wasps, Potter Wasps, and Allies · Vespidae
Genus	Umbrella Paper Wasps · Polistes

Sources

Names, taxonomy and observation counts: www.inaturalist.org
Photos and recordings: the creator and source are on each one.
How much to rely on each source

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Practise Veracruz Paper Wasp with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.

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