A medium-sized species with red and black gaster; the female with bifasciate wings. Males are easy to identify by the characteristic genital plate. However, females can be very difficult to identify and the advice of Day (1988), that some individuals cannot be placed to species, should be heeded.
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Priocnemis exaltata belongs to Priocnemis sens. str. Males can be identified by examination of the genitalia, and females recognised by the long metapostnotum. It is one of the largest species in its subgenus.
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Priocnemis fennica belongs in Priocnemis sens. str., where, along with hyalinata (Fabricius), it exhibits the character of a greatly enlarged inner tooth on the tarsal claw. Males exhibit distinct differences in their genitalia in comparison to hyalinata; females of both species are more similar and the characters to separate them more subtle (Day, 1988).
It has only relatively recently been recognised as British (Day, 1979) and older records of ‘hyalinata’, or its synonym femoralis, might refer to either species; fennica… Read more
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There have been two names applied to this species which is possibly an intermittent resident in Britain: Polistes dominula and P. gallicus. Confusingly, the true P. gallicus (Linnaeus) has also been found in Britain, but only as a vagrant. The best characterised instance of a reproductive and long-term colony was one found by the author in the roof of the Orangery at Ham House, Petersham, Surrey. Here there were many nests under the tiles and this situation persisted at least between 2003 and 2010; they may still be there. A number of other records may well… Read more
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