Odynerus is a primarily Holarctic genus of potter wasps.
| Odynerus | |
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| Odynerus spinipes (Linnaeus) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Vespidae |
| Subfamily: | Eumeninae |
| Genus: | Odynerus Latreille, 1802 |
| Type species | |
| Vespa spinipes Linnaeus, 1758
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The name of this genus has been widely used as a root to construct many other genus-level names for potter wasps with non-petiolated metasoma, such as Euodynerus, Acarodynerus, Stenodynerus, Parodontodynerus and Incodynerus.
Species
editA partial species list of the hundreds of species classified under Odynerus is set out below:
- Odynerus acuticarinatus (Cameron, 1909)
- Odynerus acutocarinatus Cameron, 1909
- Odynerus areatus Fox, 1902
- Odynerus dorsonotatus Fox, 1902
- Odynerus eburneofasciatus Dusmet, 1903
- Odynerus ezechiae Schulthess, 1923
- Odynerus herbertii Fox, 1902
- Odynerus jeromensis Cameron, 1909
- Odynerus longicornus Fox, 1902
- Odynerus melanocephalus (Gmeling, 1790)
- Odynerus pacator Giordani Soika, 1960
- Odynerus pallidus Zavattari, 1912
- Odynerus rufimaculus Fox, 1902
- Odynerus simillimus Morawitz, 1867
- Odynerus simplex Bingham, 1902
- Odynerus spinipes (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Odynerus striatus (Fox, 1902)
- Odynerus zhelochovtzewi Kostylev, 1929
References
edit- ^ FOX, W. J. 1902. Contributions to a knowledge of the Hymenoptera of Brazil, Nº. 8.- Eumenidae, continued (Genus Odynerus). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 1902:44-69.