Paraleptomenes is a primarily Indomalayan genus of potter wasps. There is a single species, Paraleptomenes miniatus, reported outside of the region, from the island of Mauritius in the Afrotropical region.[1]
Paraleptomenes | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Vespidae |
Subfamily: | Eumeninae |
Genus: | Paraleptomenes Giordani Soika, 1970[1] |
Type species | |
Paraleptomenes nurseanus Giordani Soika, 1970[1]
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Species
editParaleptomenes contains the following eleven species:[2]
- Paraleptomenes communis Giordani Soika, 1994
- Paraleptomenes darugiriensis Kumar, Carpenter & Sharma, 2014
- Paraleptomenes guichardi Giordani Soika, 1994
- Paraleptomenes humbertianus (Saussure, 1867)
- Paraleptomenes incultus Nguyen & Nguyen, 2020
- Paraleptomenes kosempoensis (Schulthess, 1934)
- Paraleptomenes miniatus (Saussure, 1855)
- Paraleptomenes nurseanus Giordani Soika, 1970
- Paraleptomenes rufoniger Giordani Soika, 1994
- Paraleptomenes setaceus Bai, Chen & Li, 2022
- Paraleptomenes transfoveolus Bai, Chen & Li, 2022
References
edit- ^ a b c Girish P. Kumar; James M. Carpenter; Gaurav Sharma (2014). "A review of the genus Paraleptomenes Giordani Soika 1970 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae: Odynerini) from the Indian subcontinent with a description of a new species from the eastern Himalayas" (PDF). Zootaxa. 3802 (1): 131–143. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3802.1.11. PMID 24870998.
- ^ Bai, Yue Bai; Carpenter, James M.; Chen, Bin; Li, Ting-Jing (29 April 2022). "A review of the genus Paraleptomenes Giordani Soika, 1970 (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Eumeninae) from China, with descriptions of two new species". Journal of Hymenoptera Research. 90: 185–199. doi:10.3897/jhr.90.82546.