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Genus Mischocyttarus - Long-waisted Paper Wasps

Paper wasp - Mischocyttarus flavitarsis - female Polistes aurifer? - Mischocyttarus flavitarsis Mischocyttarus - Mischocyttarus navajo - female Bicolored  Paper wasp with curled antenna? - Mischocyttarus navajo - male Mischocyttarus mexicanus Mexican Paper Wasp - Mischocyttarus mexicanus Unknown 5 - United World College - Mischocyttarus flavitarsis Wasp - Mischocyttarus flavitarsis
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon (Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps)
Superfamily Vespoidea
Family Vespidae (Hornets, Yellowjackets; Paper, Potter, Mason, and Pollen Wasps; and Allies)
Subfamily Polistinae (Paper Wasps)
Genus Mischocyttarus (Long-waisted Paper Wasps)
Explanation of Names
Mischocyttarus Saussure 1853
from the Greek μίσχος 'stalk' + κύτταρος 'cell of a honeycomb' => 'stalked honeycomb' (the nest Saussure described was suspended from a slender stalk)
Numbers
3 spp. in our area, all in the subgenus Phi; the largest genus of social wasps, with nearly 250 described spp.(1) • US records of M. phthisicus refer to M. mexicanus cubicola(2)
Identification
meso- & metatarsomeres 3 & 4 strongly asymmetrical. First gastric segment narrowed into an elongate petiole.
Range
New World, primarily neotropical(1)
Works Cited
1.Vespidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) of Puerto Rico, West Indies
Carpenter J.M., Genaro J.A. 2011. Insecta Mundi 0202: 1-35.
2.Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico
Karl V. Krombein, Paul D. Hurd, Jr., David R. Smith, and B. D. Burks. 1979. Smithsonian Institution Press.