Conspecific

Conspecific is a term useds to describe individuals or populations of organisms that belong to the same species. For example, in a wasp's nest there will be many worker wasps and each individual worker can be described as a conspecific of the other workers since they all belong to the same species.

A nest of the European paper wasp Polistes dominulus. Each worker wasp is a conspecific of the other workers.
Photograph by Fabio Brambilla licensed under Creative Commons.

Related terms

• Binomial naming system
• Biological classification
• Species
• Taxonomy

Related groups of terms

• Classification
• General biology

Related pages on this web site

• Insect classification

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