phragmocyttarous

From phragmo-, from Ancient Greek φρᾰγμός (phrăgmós) + κύτταρος (kúttaros).^[1][2]

phragmocyttarous (not comparable)

1. (entomology) Of, relating to, or being a type of social wasp nest, in which brood combs are attached laterally to the inner surface of the sack-like envelope.^[1][2]
   • 1933, Philip Rau, The Jungle Bees and Wasps of Barro Colorado Island, P. Rau, page 46:

     In Ducke's classification, Polybia is placed with those species that are paper workers, are polygynous, make a nest with an envelope, and are completely phragmocyttarous.

   • 1978, Owain Westmacott Richards, The social wasps of the Americas excluding the Vespinae, British Museum (Natural History), page 158:

     The members of this distinctive genus are rather rare, the males especially so. They were described by Araujo. The nests are phragmocyttarous.

   • 1979, Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico: Apocrita (Aculeata), Smithsonian Institution Press, page 1517:

     The species of Polybia build phragmocyttarous nests which consist of one to many combs attached to a branch, leaf or rock, surrounded by an envelope of carton or of mud containing an exit hole at the side or bottom of the comb. A number of species enlarge the nest by adding sue-