Synagris (Paragris) de Saussure 1855

Selis, Marco, 2023, Taxonomic revision of the subgenus Synagris (Paragris) de Saussure (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae), Journal of Natural History (J. Nat. Hist.) 57 (41 - 44), pp. 1949-1962 : 1950

Synagris (Paragris) de Saussure 1855

Paragris , 1855: 156, name for division II of genus Synagris Latreille in de Saussure (1852: 84) (5 + 2 species). Type species: Synagris huberti de Saussure, 1855 by subsequent designation of Ashmead (1902: 210) as Synagris humbertii (!) (incorrect subsequent spelling).

Diagnosis

Distinguished from other subgenera of Synagris by the following combination of characters: body size smaller, inner margin of mandible dentate, outer surface of mandible with ridges, labrum not apically narrowed, clypeus short pyriform and microstriate, apical margin of clypeus as wide as interantennal distance, labial palpi with second and third segments separated, frons with a M-shaped elevated area, pronotal carina regularly rounded dorsally, mesoscutum without a posteromedian raised area, metanotum with conical protuberances, mesepimeron evenly convex, posterior face of propodeum without depression or longitudinal carina, propodeum without transverse striae (except S. ornatissima ), T1 broadly pyriform or trapezoidal, S1 without arched carina, S1 with raised posterolateral corners, S2 evenly convex in lateral view, tarsal claws without basal lobe, prestigma two times as long as pterostigma, F11 of male long and curved and reaching half of F8, male vertex not strongly enlarged and similar to that of female, male mid femur flattened and convex posteriorly, digitus subtriangular ( Selis and Carpenter 2022).