 Polistes exclamans is part of subfamily Polistinae within the hymenopteran family Vespidae . Polistinae ( paper wasps ) is the second largest of six vespid subfamilies , containing around 950 species , and is composed entirely of social wasps . It is made up of four tribes ; P. exclamans is part of <unk> . Genus Polistes is currently split into four subgenera that are distributed across the world ; P. exclamans is a part of the New World subgenus <unk> and is most closely related to P. annularis , P. <unk> , P. canadensis , P. <unk> , P. <unk> , P. <unk> , P. crinitus , P. versicolor , and P. <unk> . 
