Dolichovespula sylvestris (Scopoli, 1763)

Dvořák, Libor, Roberts, Stuart P. M., Pla, Šumava Np and & Caer, 2006, Key to the paper and social wasps of Central Europe (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 46, pp. 221-244 : 235

Dolichovespula sylvestris (Scopoli, 1763) – Tree Wasp

This species can be separated from its social parasite D. omissa by having blunted anterior angles of clypeus, and from D. saxonica and D. norwegica by having dense and coarse punctures in lower part of clypeus. Males are unmistakeable by having backward elongated gonostipes.

Common wasp species in forested areas. More common at lower and middle altitudes; at higher altitudes partly replaced by D. saxonica .