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Leptomenes Giordani Soika

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Vespoidea; Family: Vespidae; Subfamily: Eumeninae)

Leptomenes Giordani Soika, 1939. Type species: Pachymenes congensis Bequaert, 1918 [= Odynerus eumenoides Smith, 1857], by original designation.

Malgachemenes Gusenleitner 1992: 91, genus. Type species: Malgachemenes angustus Gusenleitner, 1992, by original designation and monotypy. Synonymy by Selis, 2023.

Leptomenes angustus (Gusenleitner, 1992)

 

Leptomenes baphomet Selis, 2020

 

Leptomenes convexus Giordani Soika, 1987

 

Leptomenes cribratus Giordani Soika, 1983

 

Leptomenes eumenoides claripes Giordani Soika, 1977

 

Leptomenes eumenoides eumenoides (Smith, 1857)

 

Leptomenes laethificus Giordani Soika, 1941

 

Leptomenes major Giordani Soika, 1977

Leptomenes obliquepunctatus Selis, 2023
  Leptomenes pulawskii Gusenleitner, 1997
  Leptomenes richardsi Giordani Soika, 1975
  Leptomenes schulthessianus (de Saussure, 1890)
  Leptomenes stevensoni Giordani Soika, 1977
  Leptomenes ugandensis Giordani Soika, 1940

Distribution

Afrotropical region.

Biology

Unknown.

References

Bequaert J., 1918. A Revision of the Vespidae of the Belgian Congo Based on the Collection of the American Museum Congo Expedition, With A List of Ethiopian Diplopterous Wasps. Bulletin A. M. N. H, Vol. 39: 2-384.

Carpenter J. M., 1986. A Synonymic Generic Checklist of the Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Psyche, Vol 93: 61-90.

Carpenter, J. M. & M. Madl. 2009. A catalogue of the Vespidae of the Malagasy Subregion (Insecta, Hymenoptera). Linzer Biologische Beiträge 41 (2): 1871-1935.

Carpenter, J.M., J. Gusenleitner & M. Madl. 2009. A catalogue of the Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) of the Ethiopian Region excluding Malagasy Subregion. Part I: Introduction, Key to Genera, Genera Aethiopicodynerus Gusenleitner 1997 to Cyrtolabulus van der VECHT 1969. Linzer Biologische Beiträge 41 (1): 513-638.

Carpenter, J.M., J. Gusenleitner & M. Madl. 2010. A catalogue of the Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) of the Ethiopian Region excluding Malagasy Subregion. Part II: Genera Delta de Saussure 1885 to Zethus FABRICIUS 1804 and Species Incertae Sedis. Linzer Biologische Beiträge 42 (1): 95-315.

Goldblatt, P. & Manning, J.C. 2012. IRIDACEAE: Notes on Moraea subg. Visciramosa (Iridoideae), including new species Moraea saldanhensis from the Atlantic coast of South Africa, recognition of M. inconspicua subsp. namaquensis, and pollination biology of M. rivulicola. Bothalia 42(2):210-215

Selis, M. 2023. Taxonomy of the Afrotropical genus Leptomenes Giordani Soika, with description of a new species from South Africa (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae). Zootaxa 5228: 584-594. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5228.5.3

von Schulthess, A. 1914. Beitrag zur Kenntnis aethiopischer Eumenidinen. Societas
Entomologia
29 (13): 57-58; (14): 62-64; (16): 72-74; (17): 77-79.

Credits

Photographs © Marco Selis (Viterbo, Italy).


Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2024. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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