Leipomeles dorsata
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Leipomeles dorsata is a neotropical paper wasp that is found across Central America and northern South America.[1] It is a eusocial wasp with little differentiation between reproducing and non-reproducing females.[1] In fact, workers can become temporary reproductives if the main reproductives are killed, allowing reproduction to continue until the main reproductive population recovers.[1] The colony cycles through different ratios of main reproductive females and subordinate reproductive females, starting with few or no primary reproducing females, and increasing until there are only main reproductives.[1]
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Leipomeles dorsata | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Vespidae |
Subfamily: | Polistinae |
Genus: | Leipomeles |
Species: | L. dorsata |
Binomial name | |
Leipomeles dorsata (Fabricius, 1804) | |
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