Eumenes Latreille 1802

Main Authors: Pannure, Arati, Carpenter, James M.
Format: info publication-taxonomictreatment eJournal
Terbitan: , 2016
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Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/4499341
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  • Genus Eumenes Latreille, 1802 Eumenes Latreille 1802: 360, genus (4 species). Type species: " Eumenes coarctata Fab. " [= Vespa coarctata Linnaeus, 1758], by subsequent designation (Latreille 1810: 438); senior objective synonym of Alpha de Saussure, 1855 and of Eumenidion Schulthess, 1913. van der Vecht & Fischer 1972: i–v+199; Carpenter 1986: 69; van der Vecht & Carpenter 1990: 22; Kim & Yamane 2001: 140; Nguyen 2015a: 565. Diagnosis. Mandibles elongate, distinctly cross each other. Clypeus longer than wide, usually emarginate apically (Fig. 1). Cephalic fovea absent. Vertex usually sloping behind lateral ocelli. Mesosoma globular, as wide as high. Anterior face of pronotum smooth and shiny without medial pits or foveae. Pronotal carina usually present. Epicnemial carina absent. Pretegular carina absent (Fig. 17). Notauli absent. Tegula longer than wide, emarginate adjoining parategula, not reaching end of parategula posteriorly. Metanotum not dentate. Axillary fossa wide. Propodeal dorsum below plane of metanotum, without dorsal shelf. Superior carinae absent. Submarginal carina not produced as pointed/rounded process. Propodeal valvula not free from submarginal carina posteriorly. Propodeal orifice wide dorsally. Metasoma petiolate, T1 punctate and abruptly widening near apex and bulged apically (Fig. 75). S1 abruptly widening near apex, forming a posterior crescentic sclerite, lateral margins of T1 closely approaching each other ventrally, usually fused (Fig. 68). T2 with translucent apical lamella (Fig. 72). Mid tibia with one apical spur. SMC2 basally acute. Prestigma shorter than pterostigma. ♂: F11 small and hook-like, sharply pointed; no cavity on inner margin of flagellomere. Body length 12–15 mm. Distribution. Cosmopolitan.
  • Published as part of Pannure, Arati & Carpenter, James M., 2016, Taxonomic studies on potter wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae) of south India, pp. 1-50 in Zootaxa 4171 (1) on page 18, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4171.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/258090