Zethus (wasp)
Zethus is a very large, mainly neotropical genus of potter wasps with some species representation also in the Nearctic, Afrotropical, Australian and Indomalayan regions.
| Zethus | |
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| Zethus slossonae | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Vespidae |
| Subfamily: | Zethinae |
| Genus: | Zethus Fabricius, 1804[1] |
| Type species | |
| Vespa coeruleopennis Fabricius, 1798 | |
| Species | |
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About 300 species see List of Zethus species | |
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
- James Michael Carpenter (1986). "A Synonymic Generic Checklist of the Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)". Psyche. 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.
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