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FAMILY VESPIDAE
- This page contains pictures and information about Dark-faced Brown Paper Wasps that we found
in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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 - Body length 15mm
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- This is a medium size Paper Wasp. They are reddish brown in colour with
creamy-white face. The are the thin white rings on the shoulder, waist and
abdomen.
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- This species look very similar to the White-faced Paper Wasp
except the dark face and the narrower waist. They build different shape of
nest.
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- Their nest look like a long stick hanging off the branch. The comb is about
200mm
long with one or two columns of cells.
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- We found the wasps and their nests a few times in the Eucalypts
forests in Brisbane.
- Reference:
- 1. The
Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera : Vespidae) - Richards, OW
(1978), Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 26
, 1–132.
- 2. THE MALE OF ROPALIDIA GRACILENTA RICHARDS (HYMENOPTERA: VESPIDAE), WITH NOTES ON THE FEMALE AND A NEST - J. Kojima, Australian Journal of Entomology, Volume 26, Issue 2, pages 149–151, May 1987.
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