Paper Wasp (Polistes cavapyta)

Paper Wasp

Polistes cavapyta

Avispa Colorada de Cabeza Amarilla

Family: Vespidae
Order: Hymenoptera
Class: Insecta
Phylum / Division: Arthropoda
Kingdom: Animalia

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Records from Carcarañá

Other common names: Avispa Colorada Sudamericana, Social Wasp.

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Last published photographs

Photography ID: 671084
Adult
Carcarañá
Santa Fe
Argentina
02/01/2026
Gaston Lisandro Gabinetti

Photography ID: 671038
Adult
Carcarañá
Santa Fe
Argentina
02/01/2026
Peter Vidana

Photography ID: 369590
Adult
Carcarañá
Santa Fe
Argentina
12/22/2019
Adrian Braidotti

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2427296

01/02/2026

Argentina

Santa Fe

Río Carcarañá, Carcarañá

Gaston Lisandro Gabinetti

2426997

01/02/2026

Argentina

Santa Fe

Río Carcarañá, Carcarañá

Peter Vidana

1153794

22/12/2019

Argentina

Santa Fe

Carcarañá

Adrian Braidotti

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