Mischocyttarus tapuya was originally described from a single male specimen collected in a forest near Belm, state of Par, 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 Belm, and here describe the previously unknown female, mature larva, and nest of this social wasp.
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