Polistes actaeon is a species of social paper wasp found in southern Brazil.
They include the social wasps such as paper wasps and hornets.
In Natural history and evolution of paper wasps.
Then I don't have to tell you to get a paper wasp.
It is the native "paper wasp" most common in the American midwest.
Recent research has discovered paper wasps have face recognition abilities comparable to humans.
"It's just the way the brain processes the image of a face, and it turns out that these paper wasps do the same thing."
This suggests that the paper wasps' brains are tuned to recognize faces of their own species - as with humans.
Adults are brown with thin yellow bands on the abdomen and resemble paper wasps.
For most of his works, he uses Ropalidia marginata, a commonly found paper wasp, as study system.