Rainer Neumeyer, Hannes Baur, Gaston-Denis Guex, Christophe Praz
Zookeys
Figure 12.Drawings of morphological characters used in the key to European paper wasps (Polistes) of the gallicus-group: Mesopleuron with abrupt (a) or gradual (b) sculpture change; female antennae with dark (c) or bright (d) upper side of flagellomeres; male apical flagellum dark (e) or bright (f) on upper side; head in frontal view with black band across clypeus (g) or isolated black spot (h); apical mesosoma in dorsal view with drop-shaped spots on mesoscutum, posterior pronotal stripes ending far from pronotal carina (i) or without drop-shaped spots, pronotal stripes approaching pronotal carina (k); head in dorsal view with genae convex (l) or immediately narrowing (m). Drawings a, b, c, d, f are courtesy of H. Cigler, g, h, i, k of D. Lawniczak, and e, l, m of CSCF.