Pachymenes

Pachymenes
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Vespidae
Subfamily: Eumeninae
Genus: Pachymenes
Saussure, 1852
Type species
Pachymenes sericeus
Saussure, 1852
Species

Pachymenes is a small but widely distributed Neotropical genus of potter wasps, it has been proposed that another Neotropical genus, Santamenes, be merged into Pachymenes.

References

  1. 1 2 James Michael Carpenter (1986). "A Synonymic Generic Checklist of the Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)". Psyche: A Journal of Entomology. 93 (1–2): 61–90. doi:10.1155/1986/12489.
  2. ↑ Grandinete, Yuri Campanholo; Hermes, Marcel Gustavo; Noll, Fernando Barbosa (2015). "Systematics and phylogeny of the Neotropical Pachymenes de Saussure and Santamenes Giordani Soika (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Eumeninae)". Systematic Entomology. 40 (2): 365–384. Bibcode:2015SysEn..40..365G. doi:10.1111/syen.12105.