Eumenes Latreille, 1802

Grandinete, Yuri Campanholo, Noll, Fernando Barbosa & Carpenter, James, 2018, Taxonomic Review of Eumenes Latreille, 1802 (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Eumeninae) from the New World, Zootaxa 4459 (1), pp. 1-52 : 4-5

Genus Eumenes Latreille, 1802

Eumenes Latreille, 1802 , Hist. Nat. Crustacés Ins. 3: 360, genus.

Type species: “ Eumenes coarctata Fab. ” [= Uespa coarctata Linnaeus, 1758 ], by subsequent designation of Latreille, 1810, Consid. Gen. Crust. Arachn. Ins.: 438.

Alpha de Saussure, 1855 , Ét. Fam. Vesp. 3: 128, 137, name for division I of genus Eumenes Latreille in de Saussure, 1852 , loc. cit. 1: 28 [junior homonym of Alpha de Saussure, 1854 ].

Type species: Uespa coarctata Linnaeus, 1758 , by subsequent designation of Bequaert, 1926, Ann. S. Afr. Mus. 23: 485. Eumenis Kriechbaumer, 1879 , Entomol. Nachr. 5: 57 [unjustified emendation of Eumenes Latreille ].

Eumemes Fox, 1899, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad: 439 [incorrect spelling of Eumenes Latreille ].

Eumes Bertoni, 1910, Rev. Agron. Bol. Estac. Agron. Puerto Bertoni 4: 36 [incorrect spelling of Eumenes Latreille ]. Eumenidion von Schulthess, 1913 , Societas Entomol. 28: 2, subgenus of Eumenes Latreille.

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

Eumenidium Sharp, 1915 , in Zool. Rec., Insecta for 1913: 275 [incorrect spelling of Eumenidion von Schulthess ].

Literature:

Isely, 1917, Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 10: 345–363 (North American species);

Bequaert, 1938, Bull. Brooklyn Entomol. Soc. 33: 59–70 (species of northeastern U.S.A and eastern Canada).

Bequaert, 1944, Nat. Canad. 71: 75–88 (Canadian species).

Giordani Soika, 1978, Boll. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Venezia 29: 16–45 (revision of Neotropical species).

MacLachlan, 1980, J. Kans. Entomol. Soc. 53 (key to North American species).

Buck et al., 2008, Can. J. Arthrop. Identif. 5: 1–492 (key to northeastern Nearctic Region)