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Paper Wasp

Mischocyttarus mexicanus cubicola

Photo by HemaShah
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Field Notes

Description:

paper wasp?

Habitat:

Lake Beuna Vista

Species ID Suggestions

Dark Paper Wasp

Polistes fuscatus

Reference Link
JonathanHoskins
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Comments (4)
HemaShah
Thanks so much Jonathan.Looks like you are a wasp expert .Could you check my Gall spottings out?
JonathanHoskins
Any species of Mischocyttarus can be ruled out. That genus always has an elongate first abdominal segment, and the only species from Florida has more yellow markings on each tagmata (head, thorax, and abdomen) and won't have black markings on the abdomen. This is actually Polistes fuscatus.
HemaShah
Mischocyttarus mexicanus cubicola?
Photographed
PublishedMay 30, 2014

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