Eumenes (genus)
Taxobox
name = "Eumenes"
image_size = 250px
image_caption = "Eumenes pomiformis"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Hymenoptera
subordo = Apocrita
superfamilia = Vespoidea
familia = Vespidae
subfamilia = Eumeninae
genus = "Eumenes"
genus_authority = Latreille, 1802
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = many (>100 species + subspecies)"Eumenes" is the type genus of the subfamily Eumeninae ("potter wasps") of Vespidae. It is a large and widespread genus, with over 100 taxa (species and subspecies), mostly occurring in the temperate portions of the Northern Hemisphere. Most species are black or brown, and commonly marked with strikingly contrasting patterns of yellow, white, orange, or red (or combinations thereof). Like most vespids, their wings are folded longitudinally at rest. The first metasomal segment is narrow and elongate, creating a "bulbous" appearance to the abdomen.
The genus was named after the Greek general Eumenes. The root of the name has been widely used to construct many other genus-level names for potter wasps with petiolated metasoma like "Brachymenes", "Santamenes", "Oreumenes", "Pachymenes", "Katamenes", etc. Most of those groups have been treated as part of the genus "Eumenes" for a long time.
References
*Giordani Soika, A. 1978. Revisione degli Eumenidi neotropicali appartenenti ai generi "Eumenes" Latr., "Omicron" (Sauss.), "Pararaphidoglossa" Schulth. ed affini. Boll. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Venezia 29: 1-420.
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