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 Buenos Aires

Other common names: Avispa Colorada Sudamericana, Social Wasp.

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Group	Species	Date	User
Insects	Mallophora bigoti	04/05/2019	Román Montero

Last published photographs

Photography ID: 632272
Adult
Villa Gesell
Buenos Aires
Argentina
04/05/2025
Marcos Garberoglio

Photography ID: 574065
Adult
Trenque Lauquen
Buenos Aires
Argentina
02/03/2024
Diego Alfonso Rosa

Photography ID: 387797
Adult
Tandil
Buenos Aires
Argentina
02/18/2017
Lucas Rubio

Photography ID: 329363
♂ ♀ Adult
Saladillo
Buenos Aires
Argentina
04/25/2019
Javier Beruhard

Photography ID: 316171
Adult
Mar de Ajó
Buenos Aires
Argentina
01/30/2019
Diego Trillo

Photography ID: 316170
Adult
Mar de Ajó
Buenos Aires
Argentina
01/30/2019
Diego Trillo

Photography ID: 316169
Adult
Mar de Ajó
Buenos Aires
Argentina
01/30/2019
Diego Trillo

Photography ID: 309646
Adult
Casbas
Buenos Aires
Argentina
01/02/2019
Lucas Martín

Photography ID: 233379
Adult
Pergamino
Buenos Aires
Argentina
12/09/2017
Jorge Iriberri

Photography ID: 212766
Adult
Reserva Natural del Pilar
Buenos Aires
Argentina
10/12/2014
Claudio Mendez

Photography ID: 59156
♀ Adult
Hudson
Buenos Aires
Argentina
05/07/2014
Graciela Alcantara

Photography ID: 20763
Adult
Vuelta de Obligado (San Pedro)
Buenos Aires
Argentina
01/10/2009
Nicolas Olejnik

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Last Filmings published

Video ID: 3204
Tigre
Buenos Aires
Argentina
03/23/2018
Maximiliano Lia

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2280597

05/04/2025

Argentina

Buenos Aires

Villa Gesell

Marcos Garberoglio

2006188

03/02/2024

Argentina

Buenos Aires

Hotel Howard Johnson, Trenque Lauquen

Diego Alfonso Rosa

918586

04/05/2019

Argentina

Buenos Aires

Parque y Reserva Natural Municipal Los Robles, Área Natural Protegida Dique Ingeniero Roggero

Román Montero

914897

25/04/2019

Argentina

Buenos Aires

Saladillo Norte, Saladillo

Javier Beruhard

908451

13/04/2019

Argentina

Buenos Aires

Reserva Natural de Merlo, Área Natural Protegida Dique Ingeniero Roggero

Román Montero

908455

05/03/2019

Argentina

Buenos Aires

San Antonio de Padua

Román Montero

905730

08/02/2019

Argentina

Buenos Aires

Tandil

Maximiliano Rocchi

885347

30/01/2019

Argentina

Buenos Aires

Médanos de la costa, Mar de Ajó

Diego Trillo

865536

02/01/2019

Argentina

Buenos Aires

Casbas

Lucas Martín

720789

30/03/2018

Argentina

Buenos Aires

Reserva Ecológica Vicente López

Ricardo A. Palonsky

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