Mischocyttarus mexicanus
Mischocyttarus mexicanus (de Saussure) is a New World paper wasp that exhibits facultative eusocial behavior and includes at least two subspecies living in the southern United States and Central America. This social wasp species is a good model for studying the selective advantage of different nesting tactics within a single species. M. mexicanus females can form nests both as individuals and as members of a colony, and are even known to switch between these two nesting strategies throughout their life, which is an interesting phenomenon in the field of social biology. Individuals in a colony have particular social roles that are plastic, as opposed to rigid castes, and brood parasitism and usurpation have been observed between unrelated conspecifics. They nest in a variety of types of pl
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Mischocyttarus mexicanus
Mischocyttarus mexicanus (de Saussure) is a New World paper wasp that exhibits facultative eusocial behavior and includes at least two subspecies living in the southern United States and Central America. This social wasp species is a good model for studying the selective advantage of different nesting tactics within a single species. M. mexicanus females can form nests both as individuals and as members of a colony, and are even known to switch between these two nesting strategies throughout their life, which is an interesting phenomenon in the field of social biology. Individuals in a colony have particular social roles that are plastic, as opposed to rigid castes, and brood parasitism and usurpation have been observed between unrelated conspecifics. They nest in a variety of types of pl
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Mischocyttarus mexicanus
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Saussure, 1853
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M. mexicanus workers
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*M. m. mexicanus
*M. m. cubicola
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Mischocyttarini
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Mischocyttarus mexicanus (de S ...... st in a variety of types of pl
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