Leptomenes
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Vespidae
Subfamily: Eumeninae
Genus: Leptomenes
Giordani Soika, 1939[1]
Type species
Pachymenes congensis Bequaert, 1918) as a synonym of Odynerus eumenoides Smith, 1857[1]
Species

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Leptomenes is a mainly Afrotropical genus of potter wasps. It was previously a much larger genus, though many species have been transferred to other genera such as Eumenidiopsis, Stroudia, and Tachymenes.[2]

Species

The following species are included in Leptomenes:

  • Leptomenes convexus Giordani Soika, 1987
  • Leptomenes cribratus Giordani Soika, 1983
  • Leptomenes eumenoides (Smith, 1857)
  • Leptomenes extremus Gusenleitner, 2005
  • Leptomenes laethificus Giordani Soika, 1941
  • Leptomenes major Giordani Soika, 1977
  • Leptomenes pulawskii Gusenleitner, 1997
  • Leptomenes richardsi Giordani Soika, 1975
  • Leptomenes schulthessianus (de Saussure, 1890)
  • Leptomenes stevensoni Giordani Soika, 1977
  • Leptomenes ugandensis Giordani Soika, 1940

References

  1. 1 2 James Michael Carpenter (1986). "A Synonymic Generic Checklist of the Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)". Psyche: A Journal of Entomology. 93 (1–2): 61–90. doi:10.1155/1986/12489.
  2. J.M. Carpenter; J. Gusenleitner; M. Madl (2010). "A Catalogue of the Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) of the Ethiopian Region excluding Malagasy Subregion. Part II: Genera Delta de SAUSSURE 1885 to Zethus FABRICIUS 1804 and Species Incertae Sedis" (PDF). Linzer Biologische Beiträge. 42 (1): 95–315.


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