''Polistes lanio'' is a

species A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...

paper wasp Paper wasps are a type of Eusociality, social vespid wasps. The term is typically used to refer to members of the Vespidae, vespid subfamily Polistinae, though it often colloquially includes members of the subfamilies Vespinae (hornets and yel ...

and one of several species in the subgenus ''Polistes'' (''Aphanilopterus'') known as a jack Spaniard wasp.

Distribution

This species occurs throughout South America and on

Trinidad Trinidad is the larger, more populous island of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, the country. The island lies off the northeastern coast of Venezuela and sits on the continental shelf of South America. It is the southernmost island in ...

Subspecies

This species is divided into the following subspecies: * ''Polistes lanio lanio'' * ''Polistes lanio satanulus'' * ''Polistes lanio weberi''

References

lanio ''Lanio'' is the genus of shrike-tanagers in the family Thraupidae. The genus was introduced by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1816 with the fulvous shrike-tanager (''Lanio fulvus'') as the type species. The genus name is der ...

Hymenoptera of South America Insects described in 1775 Taxa named by Johan Christian Fabricius {{vespidae-stub