Eumenes Latreille, 1802

Carpenter, James M. & Brown, Graham R., 2021, Catalogue of the Australian Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), Zootaxa 4919 (1), pp. 1-68 : 18

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Genus Eumenes Latreille View in CoL View at ENA

Eumenes Latreille 1802: 360 View in CoL , genus.

Type species: “ Eumenes coarctata Fab. ” [= Vespa coarctata Linnaeus, 1758 View in CoL ], by subsequent designation of Latreille 1810: 438.

Alpha de Saussure 1855: 128 , 137, name for division I of genus Eumenes Latreille in de Saussure 1852: 28 View in CoL [junior homonym of Alpha de Saussure 1854 ].

Type species: Vespa coarctata Linnaeus, 1758 View in CoL , by subsequent designation of Bequaert 1926b: 485.

Eumenis Kriechbaumer 1879: 57 (unjustified emendation of Eumenes Latreille View in CoL ).

Eumenidion von Schulthess 1913: 2 , subgenus of Eumenes Latreille. View in CoL

Type species: “ Eumenes coarctatus View in CoL L.” [= Vespa coarctata Linnaeus, 1758 View in CoL ], by original designation.

Taxonomy: Fox 1899: 439 (Eumemes [!]).— Bertoni 1910: 36 (Eumes [!]).— Sharp 1914: 275 ( Eumenidium [!]).— Cardale 1985: 176 (cat.).

Distribution: Cosmopolitan.

Ethology: No reports on Australian species. Where studied, the species build mud nests consisting of jug-like cells on the substrate, and provision them with caterpillars.