''Chartergellus'' is a genus of
eusocial
Eusociality (from Greek εὖ ''eu'' "good" and social), the highest level of organization of sociality, is defined by the following characteristics: cooperative brood care (including care of offspring from other individuals), overlapping generat ...
wasp
A wasp is any insect of the narrow-waisted suborder Apocrita of the order Hymenoptera which is neither a bee nor an ant; this excludes the broad-waisted sawflies (Symphyta), which look somewhat like wasps, but are in a separate suborder. Th ...
s of Epiponini with ten described species.
The range of the species within this genus extends from Costa Rica to southeastern Brazil.
The genus was described by J. Becquaert in 1938.
Species
* '' Chartergellus afoveatus''
Cooper 1993
* '' Chartergellus amazonicus''
Richards 1978
* '' Chartergellus atectus''
Richards 1978
* '' Chartergellus communis''
Richards 1978
* '' Chartergellus frontalis''
(Fabricius 1804)
* ''
Chartergellus jeannei''
Andena and Soleman 2015
* '' Chartergellus nigerrimus''
Richards 1978
* '' Chartergellus punctatior''
Richards 1978
* '' Chartergellus sanctus''
Richards 1978
* '' Chartergellus zonatus''
(Spinosa 1851)
References
Vespidae
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