Mischocyttarus
Mischocyttarus | |
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Western paper wasp (Mischocyttarus flavitarsis) building a nest | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Vespidae |
Subfamily: | Polistinae |
Genus: | Mischocyttarus Saussure, 1853 |
Species | |
>200 species |
Mischocyttarus is a very large, primarily Neotropical genus of social wasps with a few species found also in the Nearctic region. It is the only member of the tribe Mischocyttarini;[1] the asymmetrical tarsal lobes of Mischocyttarus separates it from the tribe Epiponini. Mischocyttarus is the largest genus of social wasps, containing over 200 species and subspecies.[1] Mischocyttarus wasps build a relatively simple, single comb nest. Sometimes, the nest is built within a meter of the nest of Polistes carnifex.[2] Foraging adults bring nectar and small caterpillars back to the nest to feed to the developing larvae which are individually housed in separate cells in the nest.[3] Not all nests have a female with developed ovaries.[2] Their biology is similar to that of species in the genus Polistes. However, Mischocyttarus appear to show considerably more social and reproductive flexibility than Polistes.
Species[1][]
- Silveira, 2013
- Silveira, 2006
- Alayo 1972
- Zikan, 1935
- Zikan, 1949
- Richards, 1978
- (Ducke, 1904)
- Richards 1978
- Zikan, 1949
- Silveira, 2015
- Richards 1945
- Richards, 1978
- Richards, 1945
- Silveira, 2013
- Silveira, 1998
- (Ducke, 1914)
- Silveira, 2013
- Starr, 2011
- Richards, 1945
- Zikan 1949
- Richards, 1978
- Richards 1945
- (Cameron, 1906)
- Cooper, 1997
- Richards, 1945
- Ducke, 1918
- Zikan 1949
- Bequard & Salt, 1931
- (Ducke, 1906)
- Zikan, 1949
- Silveira, 2015
- Raw, 1987
- Zikan 1949
- (Saussure, 1854)
- Zikan, 1949
- (Ihering, 1903)
- Zikan 1949
- Richards, 1945
- Ducke 1918
- Snelling, 1983
- Richards, 1978
- (Fox 1898)
- Cooper, 1998
- Zikan 1949
- Zikan 1949
- Cooper, 1997
- Richards, 1945
- Zikan 1935
- Richards, 1940
- (Ducke, 1904)
- Richards 1945
- Zikan 1935
- Zikan 1949
- Zikan 1935
- Zikan 1949
- Richards, 1978
- Richards 1945
- Zikan 1949
- Zikán 1935
- (Saussure, 1854)
- Zikan 1949
- (Fox, 1895)
- Richards, 1978
- Zikan 1935
- Zikan 1949
- Mischocyttarus drewseni (Saussure, 1854)
- Buysson, 1909
- Richards 1945
- Zikan 1949
- Silveira, 2006
- Zikan 1949
- Silveira, 2013
- Zikan 1935
- Silveira, 2006
- (Saussure, 1854)
- Cooper, 1998
- Snelling 1970
- Bequard, 1938
- (Fabricius, 1804)
- Zikan 1935
- Mischocyttarus flavitarsis (Saussure 1854)
- Zikan 1949
- Zikan 1935
- Richards, 1940
- Richards, 1978
- (Fox, 1898)
- Zikan 1949
- Zikan 1935
- Raw, 1987
- Silveira, 2013
- Richards, 1945
- Willink 1953
- Richards, 1941
- Richards 1945
- Zikan, 1949
- Zikan 1949
- Zikan 1949
- Zikan 1935
- Richards 1978
- Zikan 1949
- (Ducke, 1904)
- Zikan 1949
- Cooper, 1997
- (Saussure, 1854)
- Zikan 1949
- Zikan 1935
- Richards, 1978
- Cooper, 1997
- (Fabricius, 1804)
- Zikan 1949
- (Fox, 1898)
- Richards, 1978
- Silveira, 2006
- (Ducke, 1904)
- (Buysson, 1909)
- Cooper, 1998
- Willink 1953
- Richards 1945
- Zikan 1949
- Willink 1953
- Cooper, 1998
- Cooper, 1998
- Silveira, 2006
- Richards, 1978
- Raw, 1989
- (Fox 1898)
- Richards 1978
- Zikan, 1935
- (Cameron, 1906)
- Richards, 1978
- Cooper, 1996
- Richards, 1945
- Richards, 1978
- Richards, 1978
- (Saussure, 1854)
- Richards, 1940
- Mischocyttarus mexicanus (Saussure, 1854)
- Zikan 1935
- Cooper, 1998
- Zikan 1935
- Silveira, 2006
- Richards, 1978
- (Ducke, 1909)
- Zikan 1949
- Cooper, 1996
- Zikan, 1949
- Cooper, 1996
- Zikan 1949
- Silveira, 2013
- Silveira, 2006
- Richards, 1978
- Cooper, 1998
- Richards, 1978
- Bequard, 1933
- Zikan 1949
- Zikan 1949
- Richards 1978
- Silveira, 2006
- Cooper, 1996
- Richards 1940
- Richards, 1978
- Cooper, 1996
- Zikan 1949
- Zikan 1949
- (Smith 1857)
- Richards, 1945
- Zikán 1949
- Zikan 1935
- Zikan 1935
- Silveira, 2006
- Zikan 1935
- Zikan 1949
- Carpenter 1988
- Silveira, 2006
- Zikan 1949
- Richards 1945
- Richards, 1978
- (Fabricius 1793)
- Zikan 1949
- Bequaert, 1938
- Richards, 1945
- Zikan 1949
- Cooper, 1998
- Silveira, 2006
- Richards 1941
- Zikan 1949
- (Schulz, 1903)
- (Ducke, 1904)
- Cooper, 1996
- Zikan 1949
- Cooper, 1997
- Zikan 1949
- Silveira, 2015
- (Cameron, 1912)
- Zikan, 1949
- (Saussure, 1854)
- Zikan 1949
- Richards 1945
- Silveira, 2015
- Mischocyttarus santacruzi Raw, 2000
- Zikan, 1949
- Zikan 1949
- Zikan 1949
- Zikan 1949
- Richards, 1978
- Zikan 1949
- (Saussure, 1854)
- (Saussure, 1854)
- Zikan 1949
- Cooper, 1997
- Richards 1978
- Zikan 1949
- Richards, 1940
- (Saussure, 1854)
- Silveira, 2013
- Richards 1945
- Richards 1940
- (Schulz, 1905)
- Richards 1945
- Silveira, 2013
- Silveira, 2015
- Cooper, 1996
- Cooper, 1997
- Richards 1945
- Richards, 1978
- Richards 1945
- Silveira, 2006
- Richards 1941
- Zikan, 1935
- Richards, 1978
- Zikan 1949
- Richards 1945
- Cooper, 1996
- (Ducke, 1905)
- Silveira, 2013
- Zikan, 1949
- Cooper, 1997
- Silveira, 2015
- Zikan 1935
- Richards, 1978
- (Buysson, 1908)
- Silveira, 2013
- Zikan 1949
- Richards, 1978
- Zikan, 1949
- Richards 1945
- Silveira, 2010
- Fonseca, 1926
- Richards, 1978
References[]
- ^ a b c Checklist of the Polistine Tribe Mischocyttarini
- ^ a b Corn, Mary L. (1972). "Notes on the Biology of Polistes carnifex (Hymenoptera, Vespidae) in Costa Rica and Colombia". Psyche. 79 (3): 150–157. doi:10.1155/1972/78756.
- ^ Reeve, Hudson K. (1991). "Polistes". In Kenneth G. Ross & Robert W. Mathew (ed.). The Social Biology of Wasps. Cornell University Press. pp. 99–148. ISBN 978-0-8014-9906-7.
- Vespidae