(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Vespoidea; Family: Vespidae; Subfamily: Polistinae; Genus: Belonogaster)
Belonogaster colonialis Khol, 1894. Holotype: Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna. Type Locality: Tanzania.
Angola, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Social, constructing communal paper nests. Larvae are fed on chewed-up, soft-bodied insects such as caterpillars.
Richards, O.W. 1982. A revision of the genus Belonogaster de Saussure (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.) Vol 44: 31-114.
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Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)
Citation: van Noort, S. 2026. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).
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