Vespula

genus of insects

Taxon Taxon Q1065202

Facts

6 properties

Instance of: taxon
Maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Invasion Biology^[11]
Parent taxon: Vespinae^[3]
Taxon common name: Wespen, Yellowjackets, Guêpes, クロスズメバチ属, kortkinnvepser, osa^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8]^[9]^[10]
Taxon name: Vespula^[4]
Taxon rank: genus^[2]

🏷️ Also known as

en Vespula ar زنبور صغير de Wespen fa زنبور زرد fr Guêpes ja クロスズメバチ属 ko 땅벌속 nl kortkopwespen nl Vespula sv Jordgetingar sv Vespula zh 黄胡蜂属

🔖 Identifiers · 30

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Australian Faunal Directory ID: Vespula
BOLD Systems taxon ID: 33169
Belgian Species List ID: 53677
Biota of New Zealand ID: 0e8acddb-8759-47db-aa72-faa7b599547e
BugGuide taxon ID: 554
Catalogue of Life ID: CF9ST
Czech NDOP taxon ID: 29221
Dyntaxa ID: 1008593
EPPO Code: 1VESUG
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID: animal/Vespula
Fauna Europaea ID: 167801

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Fauna Europaea New ID: fadf5d16-b305-4a9b-b976-53508ea16c72
Freebase ID: /m/02p1g65
GBIF-species-ID (before 2026 update): 1311631
INaturalist taxon ID: 61356
IRMNG ID: 1427867
ITIS TSN: 154274
Insects (Insecta) of the World ID: 913373
Interlingual Index ID: i47124
Invasive Species Compendium Datasheet ID: 56663
J9U entity ID: 987007546654605171
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued): 2778781616
NBIC scientific name ID: 119289
NBN System Key: NHMSYS0000876773
NCBI taxonomy ID: 7451
Nederlands Soortenregister ID: 165003
New Zealand Organisms Register ID: 43648251-b59f-4c4d-89ab-0314c5664f41
Topic's main category: Category:Vespula
Wolfram Language entity code: Entity["Concept", "GenusVespula::xcq2c"]

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🔗 Connections

← Parent taxon 20

Vespula vulgaris, Vespula germanica, Vespula rufa, Vespula austriaca, Vespula flaviceps, Paravespula, Vespula pensylvanica, Eastern yellowjacket +12 more

Instance of 1

taxon

Parent taxon 1

Vespinae

Taxon rank 1

genus

Topic's main category 1

Category:Vespula

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Category:Vespula

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Summary

Vespula is a taxon^[1].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

[2] ↑ Vespula — taxon rank (P105): genus. Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2013-10-22. wikidata.org.
[3] ↑ Vespula — parent taxon (P171): Vespinae. wikidata.org.
[4] ↑ Vespula — taxon name (P225): Vespula. Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2013-10-22. wikidata.org.
[5] ↑ Vespula — taxon common name (P1843): {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'Wespen'}. wikidata.org.
[6] ↑ Vespula — taxon common name (P1843): {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Yellowjackets'}. wikidata.org.
[7] ↑ Vespula — taxon common name (P1843): {'lang': 'fr', 'text': 'Guêpes'}. wikidata.org.
[8] ↑ Vespula — taxon common name (P1843): {'lang': 'ja', 'text': 'クロスズメバチ属'}. wikidata.org.
[9] ↑ Vespula — taxon common name (P1843): {'lang': 'nb', 'text': 'kortkinnvepser'}. Retrieved 2022-09-13. wikidata.org.
[10] ↑ Vespula — taxon common name (P1843): {'lang': 'sl', 'text': 'osa'}. wikidata.org.
[11] ↑ Vespula — maintained by WikiProject (P6104): WikiProject Invasion Biology. wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

[1] ↑ Vespula is an instance of taxon (Q16521) [P31, primary]. Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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6w ago · Mrwdat3 · 2026-09-28 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Insects (Insecta) of the World ID → 913373

"Created claim: Insects (Insecta) of the World ID: 913373, batch #278390"
24w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Parent taxon → Vespinae

Instance of → taxon

Maintained by WikiProject → WikiProject Invasion Biology

Taxon rank → genus

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"Changed claim qualifiers: J9U entity ID: 987007546654605171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"

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