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Issue: Vol. 5120 No. 2: 25 Mar. 2022
Type: Article
Published: 2022-03-25
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5120.2.9
Page range: 289-294
Abstract views: 376
PDF downloaded: 21

Rediscovery of the social wasp Mischocyttarus (Kappa) tapuya Schulz, with description of the female, larva and nest (Vespidae, Polistinae)

Coordenação de Zoologia, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, MPEG-MCTIC, Av. Perimetral s/n, Campus de Pesquisa, 66040-170, Belem, PA, Brazil
Coordenação de Zoologia, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, MPEG-MCTIC, Av. Perimetral s/n, Campus de Pesquisa, 66040-170, Belem, PA, Brazil
Instituto de Educacação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Maranhão (IEMA)
Coordenação de Zoologia, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, MPEG-MCTIC, Av. Perimetral s/n, Campus de Pesquisa, 66040-170, Belem, PA, Brazil
Universidade Federal do Sul e Sudeste do Pará (UNIFESSPA)
Hymenoptera Mischocyttarini rediscovered species urban forests Guamá River Utinga Belém

Abstract

Mischocyttarus tapuya was originally described from a single male specimen collected in a forest near Belém, state of Pará, Brazil, in the year of 1893, and had never been found again. We recently collected a colony of this species in an urban forest locality near Belém, and here describe the previously unknown female, mature larva, and nest of this social wasp.

 

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