Editing Paper wasp (section)

== Species ==
Approximately 300 species of ''[[Polistes]]'' paper wasps have been identified worldwide. The most common paper wasp in Europe is ''[[Polistes dominula]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ipc.ibaraki.ac.jp/~jkrte/wasp/polistes/Polistes.htm |title=Distributional checklist of the species of the genus ''Polistes'' (Hymenoptera: Vespidae; Polistinae, Polistini) |author=James M. Carpenter |access-date=2009-02-09 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090710131558/http://www.ipc.ibaraki.ac.jp/~jkrte/wasp/polistes/Polistes.htm |archive-date=2009-07-10 }}</ref> The [[Old World]] tribe [[Ropalidiini]] contains another 300 species, and the [[Neotropical]] tribes [[Epiponini]] and [[Mischocyttarini]] each contain over 250 more, so the total number of true paper wasps worldwide is about 1100 species, almost half of which can be found in the neotropics.