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Eumenes Latreille in de Saussure 1802

Description

Genus Eumenes Latreille

Eumenes Latreille 1802: 360, genus.

Type species: “ Eumenes coarctata Fab. ” [= Vespa coarctata Linnaeus, 1758], by subsequent designation of Latreille 1810: 438.

Alpha de Saussure 1855: 128, 137, name for division I of genus Eumenes Latreille in de Saussure 1852: 28 [junior homonym of Alpha de Saussure 1854].

Type species: Vespa coarctata Linnaeus, 1758, by subsequent designation of Bequaert 1926b: 485.

Eumenis Kriechbaumer 1879: 57 (unjustified emendation of Eumenes Latreille).

Eumenidion von Schulthess 1913: 2, subgenus of Eumenes Latreille.

Type species: “ Eumenes coarctatus L.” [= Vespa coarctata Linnaeus, 1758], by original designation.

Taxonomy: Fox 1899: 439 (Eumemes [!]).— Bertoni 1910: 36 (Eumes [!]).— Sharp 1914: 275 (Eumenidium [!]).— Cardale 1985: 176 (cat.).

Distribution: Cosmopolitan.

Ethology: No reports on Australian species. Where studied, the species build mud nests consisting of jug-like cells on the substrate, and provision them with caterpillars.

Notes

Published as part of Carpenter, James M. & Brown, Graham R., 2021, Catalogue of the Australian Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 4919 (1) on page 18, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4919.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4473370

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Latreille in de Saussure
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Vespidae
Genus
Eumenes
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Eumenes de, 1802 sec. Carpenter & Brown, 2021

References

  • Latreille, P. A. (1802) Histoire Naturelle, Generale et Particuliere des Crustaces et des Insectes, 3. F. Dufart, Paris, xii + 467 pp.
  • Latreille, P. A. (1810). Considerations Generales sur l'Ordre Naturel des Animaux composant les Classes des Crustaces, des Arachnides, et des Insectes. F. Schoell, Paris, 439 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 39620
  • Bequaert, J. (1926 b) The genus Eumenes Latreille. South Africa, with a revision of the Ethiopian species (Hymenoptera). Annals of the South African Museum, 23, 483 - 577.
  • Kriechbaumer, J. (1879) Eumeniden-Studien. Entomologische Nachrichten, 5, 57 - 59 + 85 - 89 + 201 - 204 + 309 - 312.
  • Schulthess, A. von (1913) Neue aethiopsiche Eumeniden. Societas Entomologica, 28, 1 - 3 + 6 - 78.
  • Fox, W. J. (1899) Contributions to a knowledge of the Hymenoptera of Brazil, No. 7. Eumenidae (genera Zethus, Labus, Zethoides, Eumenes, Montezumia and Nortonia). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1899, 407 - 464.
  • Bertoni, A. de W. (1910) Sobre algunos nidos nuevos de Hymenopteros del Paraguay. Revista de Agronomia, 4 (9 - 10), 35 - 40.
  • Sharp, D. (1914) Insecta. Zoological Record, 50, 1 - 470. [for the year 1913]
  • Cardale, J. C. (1985) Vespoidea and Sphecoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia, 2, 150 - 303.