Polistinae
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References
Arevalo, E., Y. Zhu, J. M. Carpenter and J. E. Strassmann 2004. The phylogeny of the social wasp subfamily Polistinae: evi- dence from microsatellite flanking sequences, mitochondrial COI sequence, and morphological characters. BioMed Central Evolutionary Biology 4: 8.
Carpenter, J. M. 1991. Phylogenetic relationships and the origin of social behavior in the Vespidae. Pp. 7–32 in: K. G. Ross and R. W. Matthews (eds.), Social Biology of Wasps. Cornell University Press, Ithaca.
Pickett, K. M. and J. M. Carpenter. 2010. Simultaneous analysis and the origins of sociality in the Vespidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera). Arthropod Systematics and Phylogeny 68(1): 3–33.
Wenzel, J. W. 1991. Evolution of nest architecture in social vespids. Pp. 480–519 in: K. G. Ross and R. W. Matthews (eds.), The Social Biology of Wasps. Cornell University Press, Ithaca.
Wenzel, J.W. and J.M. Carpenter 1994. Comparing methods: Adaptive traits and tests of adaptation. Pp. 79–101 in: P. Eggleton and R. I. Vane-Wright (eds.), Phylogenetics and Ecology. Academic Press, London.
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