Mischocyttarus mexicanus cubicola Richards, 1978

Genaro, Julio A., 2011, Vespidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) of Puerto Rico, West Indies, Insecta Mundi 2011 (202), pp. 1-35 : 16

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scientific name	Mischocyttarus mexicanus cubicola Richards
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Mischocyttarus mexicanus cubicola Richards View in CoL

Polybia cubensis var. obscura ; Ståhl 1882: 201 ( Puerto Rico). Nomen nudum .

Polybia cubensis ; Ashmead 1900: 311 [partim]. Misidentification.

Megacanthopus cubensis ; Wolcott 1924: 41 . Misidentification.

Mischocyttarus cubensis View in CoL ; Bequaert 1933: 115 (key), 118 (nest), 135, fig. 4, pl. XXIX fig. 5-6. - Wolcott 1936: 568 ; 1941: 156. � Ramos 1946: 68 (Mona). � Wolcott 1951: 864 . � Medina Gaud and Martorell 1974: 270 (Caja de Muertos). Misidentification.

Mischocyttarus cubensis var. cubensis View in CoL ; Bequaert 1933: 135, fig. 4, pl. 29 fig. 5-6. Misidentification.

Mischocyttarus cubensis cubensis View in CoL ; Bohart 1951: 880. Misidentification.

Mischocyttarus mexicanus View in CoL ; Litte 1977: 229 �246.

Mischocyttarus mexicanus cubicola Richards, 1978: 309 View in CoL (key), 318, female, male (in subgenus Monocyttarus Richards ) � “ Cuba: Mts near Guantanamo ” (holotype male BMNH); also from elsewhere in Cuba; and U. S. A.: FL. � Hermann and Chao 1984: 516 �520 (distr.; U. S. A.: SC, Puerto Rico).

This subspecies was described from Cuba, and recorded from the southeastern United States as well as Puerto Rico. It was previously misidentified as Misch. cubensis (de Saussure) View in CoL . Wolcott (1941) and Ramos (1946) recorded Misch. cubensis View in CoL from Mona, but Torres and Snelling (1992) suggested this was actually Misch. phthisicus View in CoL . However, Wolcott (1951) recorded both Misch. phthisicus View in CoL and Misch. cubensis View in CoL from Puerto Rico, and his brief description of the latter could correspond to Misch. mexicanus View in CoL cubicola. Hermann and Chao (1984) have definitely recorded Misch. mexicanus View in CoL cubicola from Puerto Rico.

Wolcott (1941, 1951, as M. cubensis View in CoL ) noted caterpillar prey, and cases of attack by Cordyceps View in CoL fungus attaching wasps to citrus leaves. The biology of Misch. mexicanus View in CoL cubicola has been extensively studied in Florida (e. g. Litte 1977; Clouse 1995, 1997, 2001).

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Hymenoptera
Family	Vespidae
Genus	Mischocyttarus