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title: "Guinea Paper Wasp"
description: "Polistes exclamans — Insectes et araignées. Polistes exclamans, the Guinea paper wasp, is a social wasp and is part of the family Vespidae of the order Hymenoptera."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/fr/animal/guinea-paper-wasp
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Guinea Paper Wasp

> Polistes exclamans — Insectes et araignées. Polistes exclamans, the Guinea paper wasp, is a social wasp and is part of the family Vespidae of the order Hymenoptera.

- Scientific name: *Polistes exclamans*
- Category: `insects` (Insectes et araignées)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 36560
- Wikidata: [Q7210115](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7210115)
- iNaturalist taxon: [133791](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/133791)

## Names

- en: Guinea Paper Wasp
- es: Avispa papelera cebra

## Countries with the most observations

US (26622), MX (555)

## Summary

Polistes exclamans, the Guinea paper wasp, is a social wasp and is part of the family Vespidae of the order Hymenoptera. It has been found in Ontario, Canada and the eastern United States from Illinois down south to Florida and west to Nebraska and California. It is also found in Mexico from Chihuahua to Jalisco, Hidalgo. P. exclamans has shown variability in its range including an absence of the species in eastern Missouri from the 1920’s to 1940’s, a presence in the 1960’s to 1980’s, and an apparent absence again of the species in these same sites in eastern Missouri since 1989. This suggests that their range has…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polistes_exclamans

## Photo

![Guinea Paper Wasp](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/guinea-paper-wasp/medium.jpg)

Photo: Jesse Rorabaugh · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/133791

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/guinea-paper-wasp?lang=fr` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).