Biology:Zethus (wasp)

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Short description: Genus of wasps

Zethus
Zethus slossonae on Sagittaria blossom (7168575697).jpg
Zethus slossonae
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Vespidae
Subfamily: Zethinae
Genus: Zethus
Fabricius, 1804[1]
Type species
Vespa coeruleopennis
Fabricius, 1798
Species

About 300 species see List of Zethus species

Zethus is a very large, mainly neotropical genus of potter wasps with some species representation also in the Nearctic, Afrotropical, Australian and Indomalayan regions.

The genus is subdivided into a few subgenera which nevertheless need a phylogenetic analysis in order to recognize their natural limits.

Species

See the separate list of Zethus species.

References

  1. James Michael Carpenter (1986). "A Synonymic Generic Checklist of the Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)". Psyche: A Journal of Entomology 93: 61–90. doi:10.1155/1986/12489. 
  • Bohart, R. M. and L. A. Stange. 1965. A revision of the genus Zethus Fabricius in the Western Hemisphere (Hymenoptera: Eumenidae). Univ. Calif. Publ. Entomol. 40: 1–208.

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q526115 entry