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
Zethus slossonae
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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

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

Species

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See the separate list of Zethus species.

References

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  1. ^ 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.
  • 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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