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Polybia

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Vespidae

Taxonomy
Polybia was named by Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau (1835). It is extant.

It was assigned to Vespidae by Cockerell (1921) and Carpenter (1992).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1835Polybia Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau p. 533
1921Polybia Cockerell p. 20
1992Polybia Carpenter

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
RankNameAuthor
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Hymenopterida
orderHymenoptera
—Unicalcarida
suborderApocritaGerstaecker 1867
—Aculeata()
superfamilyVespoidea
familyVespidae()
genusPolybia

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Polybia Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau 1835
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available