Real Yellow Paper-Wasp - Polistes olivaceus specimen encased in indestructible, transparent lucite keychain. Safe, authentic and completely unbreakable product put real Wasp right at your fingertips!

Length of the Wasp's body is 2.6 cm (1.0 inch). 

Size of the lucite block is 4.5x2.9x1.5 cm (1.8x1.1x0.6 inch).

Weight of the keychain is 21 g and 35 g with packing box.

It is a beautiful keychain and is also a very good collectible item for every body.

This is a handmade real animal specimen craft. Each one will be a bit different (specimen size, color and posture) even in the same production batch.
The pictures in the listing are just for reference as we are selling multiple pieces with same pictures.
 

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Yellow Paper-Wasp - Polistes olivaceus

COMMON NAMES: Yellow Paper-Wasp, Yellow Oriental Paper-Wasp, Redbrown Paper-Wasp; German Feldwespe

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: NATIVE India - e.Asia; EXOTIC EXOTIC e.Africa - Marquesas, Easter Is.; Hawai‘i
SIGNIFICANCE LIST: ; Poisonous sting - serious
KEY FEATURES: Large, 20mm TL. THORAX dorsal shield black with two long and wide longitudinal yellow stripes, expanded anteriorly, and yellow patches laterally; anteo-lateral plates yellow rimmed with dark centres; posterior plate orange-brown with posterior yellow bar; WAIST mainly yellow, with black lines; ABDOMEN anterior yellow, 2nd seg red yellow with fine black band, remainder yellow with black bands. WINGS yellow. LEGS yellow-brown (male - inner seg. with black).
SIMILAR SPECIES: Dark-waist Paper-Hornet (Polistes jadwigae) has overall black waist (vs. mainly yellow); thorax-shield black with two uniformly-narrow parallel lines (vs two anteriorly expanded wide parallel lines); wings smoky-brown (vs yellow). ***