''Monobia'' is a primarily
neotropical
The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface. Physically, it includes the tropical terrestrial ecoregions of the Americas and the entire South American temperate zone.
Definition
In biogeogra ...
genus of medium-sized to large
potter wasp
Potter wasps (or mason wasps), the Eumeninae, are a Cosmopolitan distribution, cosmopolitan wasp group currently considered a subfamily of Vespidae, but sometimes recognized in the past as a separate family, Eumenidae.
Mud dauber wasps, which al ...
s occurring from the
United States
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to
Argentina
Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America. It covers an area of , making it the List of South American countries by area, second-largest country in South America after Brazil, the fourt ...
.
This genus is very closely related to the genus ''
Montezumia''. It contains the following species:
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Monobia angulosa''
Saussure, 1852
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Monobia anomala''
Saussure, 1852
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Monobia apicalipennis''
Saussure, 1852
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Monobia atrorubra''
Ducke, 1904
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Monobia biangulata''
Saussure, 1875
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Monobia californica''
( Saussure, 1863)
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Monobia caliginosa''
Willink Willink is a Dutch toponymic surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Abraham Willink (1920–1998), Dutch-Argentine entomologist
* Arthur Willink (1850–1913), British theologian and clergyman
* Carel Willink (1900–1983), Dutch paint ...
, 1982
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Monobia carbonaria''
Willink, 1982
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Monobia caridei''
Brèthes, 1906
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Monobia cingulata''
Brèthes, 1903
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Monobia curvata''
Fox, 1899
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Monobia cyanipennis''
( Guerin, 1831)
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Monobia deplanata''
Ducke, 1908
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Monobia egregia''
Saussure, 1856
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Monobia eremna''
Willink, 1982
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Monobia funebris''
Gribodo, 1891
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Monobia incarum''
Bequard, 1940
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Monobia insueta''
Giordani Soika, 1969
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Monobia lecointei''
Ducke, 1911
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Monobia mochii''
Giordani Soika, 1973
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Monobia nayarit''
Willink, 1982
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Monobia nigripennis''
Saussure, 1875
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Monobia paraguayensis''
Berton, 1925
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Monobia proeta''
(Cresson ''Cresson'' is the French word for ''watercress''. It may refer to:
; Places
* Battle of Cresson, a small battle fought on May 1, 1187, in what now is Israel, near Nazareth
* Cresson, Kansas, a United States ghost town
* Cresson, Pennsylvania, a ...
, 1865)
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Monobia puertoricensis''
Bequard, 1941
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Monobia quadridens
''Monobia quadridens'', also known as the four-toothed mason wasp, is a species of solitary potter wasp (subfamily Eumeninae) found in North America. It grows to a wingspan of , and feeds on small caterpillars and pollen. Two generations occur p ...
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(Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,#Blunt, Blunt (2004), p. 171. was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming o ...
, 1763)
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Monobia schrottkyi''
Berton, 1918
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Monobia scutellaris''
Ducke, 1911
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Monobia sylvatica''
Saussure, 1852
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Monobia texana''
(Cresson, 1872)
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Monobia trifasciata''
Willink, 1982
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Monobia yacochuyae''
Willink, 1982
References
Potter wasps
Taxa named by Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure
Hymenoptera genera
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