Brown Large Paper Wasp - Polistes stigma townsvillensis
FAMILY VESPIDAE
This page contains pictures and information about Brown Large Paper Wasps that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
- Body length 20mm
- This Paper Wasp id brown in colour with yellow strips on thorax and abdomen.
- This Paper Wasp is not as common as the other two Paper Wasp species in Brisbane.
- Workers forage food, i.e., caterpillars and some other soft body insects to feed the larvae in the nest. Adult wasps feed on nectar from flowers.
- Reference:
- 1. paper wasp, Polistes stigma townsvillensis Giordani Soika - Insect images, 2010.
- 2. Northern Territory Insects, A Comprehensive Guide CD - Graham Brown, 2009.
- 3. Polistes stigma townsvillensis - Graeme's Insects of Townsville, Australia, 2004.
- 4. The Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera : Vespidae) - Richards, OW (1978), Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 26 , 1–132.
