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FAMILY VESPIDAE
- This page contains pictures and information about White-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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- They build single irregular disc form paper nest which is about 100mm in
diameter.
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- We found a few nests in different locations in Carbrook Wetland on Mar
2011.
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- This paper wasp is mostly red-brown in colour with white rings around
thorax and abdomen.
- Reference:
- 1. The
Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera : Vespidae) - Richards, OW
(1978), Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 26
, 1–132.
- 2. OBSERVATIONS ON THE NESTING BEHAVIOUR OF THREE SPECIES OF ROPALIDIA GUÉRIN-MÉNEVILLE (HYMENOPTERA: VESPIDAE)
- AW Hook AND HE EVANS - Australian Journal of Entomology, 1982 - Wiley Online Library.
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