Mischocyttarus

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Mischocyttarus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Vespidae
Subfamily: Polistinae
Tribe: Mischocyttarini
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 its own tribe, the Mischocyttarini. Mischocyttarus wasps build a relatively simple, stellocyttarous and gymnodomous single comb nest and their biology is basically similar to that of species in the genus Polistes.