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Definition of Genus Vespa
1. Noun. Type genus of the Vespidae: various hornets and yellow jackets.
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Genus
Group relationships: Family Vespidae, Vespidae
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Vespa
Literary usage of Genus Vespa
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of the Linnean Society by Linnean Society of London (1857)
"Genus VESPA, Linn. 1. Vespa affinis, Fahr. Syst. Piez. p. 254. 6 (var. V. cine/a?).
Hah. India, China, Singapore ..."
2. Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute, Or Philosophical by Victoria Institute (Great Britain) (1901)
"... are assuredly not more removed in structure and from a scientific point of
view from genus Vespa among the ..."
3. Handbook of Zoology by Jan van der Hoeven (1856)
"Vespa (Species from genus Vespa L., Vespa, Polistes LATR.) In wasps the upper
lip (labrum) is hidden behind the head-shield (clypeus) and upper jaws ..."
4. The Cambridge Natural History by Arthur Everett Shipley, Sidney Frederic Harmer (1899)
"... indeed we have already said that in the genus Vespa—perhaps the most perfectly
social of all the wasps—there is one species that has no worker, ..."
5. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"A name applied to several large stinging insects belonging to the family Vespidae
and genus Vespa. ..."
6. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1843)
"WASP, the name familiarly applied in English to insects of the genus Vespa, of
which there are several native species. The hornet, Vespa. ..."
7. The American Entomologist (1868)
"The insects commonly known as " Yellow- jackets'' in the United States belong to
the same genus ( Vespa) as the Bald-faced Hornet, and of course like that ..."
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