Pachymenes

Pachymenes is a small but widely distributed Neotropical genus of potter wasps, it has been proposed that another Neotropical genus, Santamenes, be merged into Pachymenes.[2]

Pachymenes
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Vespidae
Subfamily: Eumeninae
Genus: Pachymenes
Saussure, 1852[1]
Type species
Pachymenes sericeus
Species
  • Pachymenes ater
  • Pachymenes aztecus
  • Pachymenes bipartitus
  • Pachymenes difficilis
  • Pachymenes ghilianii
  • Pachymenes laeviventris
  • Pachymenes obscurus
  • Pachymenes orellanae
  • Pachymenes picturatus
  • Pachymenes riograndensis
  • Pachymenes saussurei
  • Pachymenes sericeus
  • Pachymenes unicinctus

References
  1. James Michael Carpenter (1986). "A Synonymic Generic Checklist of the Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)". Psyche: A Journal of Entomology. 93: 61–90. doi:10.1155/1986/12489.
  2. Grandinete, Yuri Campanholo; Hermes, Marcel Gustavo; Noll, Fernando Barbosa (2015). "Systematics and phylogeny of the Neotropical Pachymenes de Saussure and Santamenes Giordani Soika (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Eumeninae)". Systematic Entomology. 40: 365–384. doi:10.1111/syen.12105.
  • Giordani Soika, A. 1990. Revisione degli Eumenidi neotropicali appartenenti ai generi Pachymenes Sauss., Santamenes n. gen., Brachymenes G. S., Pseudacaromenes G. S., Stenosigma G. S. e Gamma Zav. (Hymenoptera). Boll. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Venezia 39: 71–172.


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