Document Type

Article

Journal/Book Title/Conference

Entomologica Americana

Volume

13

Issue

3

Publication Date

11-29-1933

First Page

87

Last Page

150

Abstract

The so-called social wasps of the New World are now placed in three subfamilies, viz., the Vespinae, Polistinae, and Polybiinae. These three groups are so distinct, structurally, that I must regard them as forming at least as many genealogical lines, each of them derived from its own ancestral stock of solitary wasps. What-ever similarity in habits they now exhibit is solely due to convergence and caused by the unavoidable reaction of communal life upon individual behavior.

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