Paraleptomenes
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Vespidae
Subfamily: Eumeninae
Genus: Paraleptomenes
Giordani Soika, 1970[1]
Type species
Paraleptomenes nurseanus
Giordani Soika, 1970[1]

Paraleptomenes is a primarily Indomalayan genus of potter wasps. There is a single species, Paraleptomenes miniatus, reported outside of the region, from the island of Mauritius in the Afrotropical region.[1]

Species

Paraleptomenes contains the following eleven species:[2]

  • Paraleptomenes communis Giordani Soika, 1994
  • Paraleptomenes darugiriensis Kumar, Carpenter & Sharma, 2014
  • Paraleptomenes guichardi Giordani Soika, 1994
  • Paraleptomenes humbertianus (Saussure, 1867)
  • Paraleptomenes incultus Nguyen & Nguyen, 2020
  • Paraleptomenes kosempoensis (Schulthess, 1934)
  • Paraleptomenes miniatus (Saussure, 1855)
  • Paraleptomenes nurseanus Giordani Soika, 1970
  • Paraleptomenes rufoniger Giordani Soika, 1994
  • Paraleptomenes setaceus Bai, Chen & Li, 2022
  • Paraleptomenes transfoveolus Bai, Chen & Li, 2022

References

  1. 1 2 3 Girish P. Kumar; James M. Carpenter; Gaurav Sharma (2014). "A review of the genus Paraleptomenes Giordani Soika 1970 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae: Odynerini) from the Indian subcontinent with a description of a new species from the eastern Himalayas" (PDF). Zootaxa. 3802 (1): 131โ€“143. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3802.1.11. PMID 24870998.
  2. โ†‘ Bai, Yue Bai; Carpenter, James M.; Chen, Bin; Li, Ting-Jing (29 April 2022). "A review of the genus Paraleptomenes Giordani Soika, 1970 (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Eumeninae) from China, with descriptions of two new species". Journal of Hymenoptera Research. 90: 185โ€“199. doi:10.3897/jhr.90.82546.


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