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Subfamily | 5 subtaxa | 41 images | 3 ident. refs | ||||
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| Author | Year | Title | Source | |
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Archer, M.E. | 2014 | Vespoid Wasps (Tiphiidea, Mutillidae, Sapygidae, Scoliidae and Vespidae) | Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Vol 6 Pt 6, 82pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London |
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Archer, M.E. | 1979 | Hymenoptera: Vespidae - social wasps | Provisional atlas of the Insects of the British Isles, second edition edition, 20pp, Biological Records Centre |
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Archer, M.E. | Key to European Vespinea | Archer, M.E. Key to European Vespinea, 10pp, BWARS members handbook | |
| Audibert, C. | Notes sur les Vespidae : biologie, systématique et clé d’identification des espèces | Bulletin du Club Rosa No 16: 21-27. | ||
| Berland, L. | 1928 | *** Hyménoptères Vespiformes II (Eumenidae, Vespidae, Masaridae, Bethylidae, Dryinidae, Embolemidae) ***(Superseded) | Faune de France, Faune No 19, 208pp, Fédération Française des Sociétés de Science Naturel | |
| Dvorak, L. & Roberts, S.P.M. | 2006 | Key to the paper and social wasps of Central Europe (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) | Acta entomologica musei nationalis Pragae Vol 46: 221-244. | |
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Else, G.R. | 1994 | Identification: Social Wasps | British Wildlife British Wildlife: 304-311. |
| Falk, S. | Hymenoptera (bees, wasps, ants and relatives) | www.flickr.com/photos/63075200@N07/collections/72157629294459686/ | ||
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Heath, J., Harding, P.T. & Archer, M.E. | 1979 | Provisional atlas of the insects of the British Isles. Part 9 Vespidae: Social wasps | 2nd ed edition, 21pp, Biological Records Centre |
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Løken, A. | 1964 | Social Wasps in Norway (Hymenoptera, Vespidae) | Norsk. Ent. Tidskr. 12: 31-56. |
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Peeters, T.M.J., Van Achterberg, C., Heitmans, W.R.B., Klein, W.F., Lefeber, V., Van Loon, A.J., Mabelis, A.A., Nieuwenhuijsen, H. Reemer, M., De Rond, J., Smit, J. & Velthuis, H.H.W. | 2004 | De Wespen en Mieren van Nederland (Hymenoptera : Aculeata) | Nederlandse Fauna, No 6, 516pp, Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum Naturalis |
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Pendleton, T. & D. | Hymenoptera: the identification of Nottinghamshire Social Wasps | www.eakringbirds.com/eakringbirds2/insectswaspsidentification.htm | |
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Spradbery, J.P. | 1973 | Wasps: an account of the biology and natural history of solitary and social wasps | 408pp, Sidgwick & Jackson, London |
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Spradbery, J.P. | 1973 | Wasps: an account of the biology and natural history of solitary and social wasps | 408pp, Sidgwick & Jackson, London |
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Wenzel, J.W. | 1998 | A generic key to the nests of hornets, yellowjackets, and paper wasps worldwide (Vespidae: Vespinae, Polistinae) | American Museum Novitates No 3224. |
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Yeo, P.F., & Corbet, S.A. | 1995 | Solitary Wasps | Naturalists’ Handbooks, 3, The Richmond Publishing Co. Ltd |
VESPIDAE (potter, mason and social wasps) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:
 NBN (data.nbn.org.uk)
has a distribution map for VESPIDAE (potter, mason and social wasps)
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 BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk)
has 74 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for VESPIDAE (potter, mason and social wasps)
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