''Odynerus'' is a primarily
Holarctic
The Holarctic realm is a biogeographic realm that comprises the majority of habitats found throughout the continents in the Northern Hemisphere. It corresponds to the floristic Boreal Kingdom. It includes both the Nearctic zoogeographical reg ...
genus of
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.
The name of this genus has been widely used as a root to construct many other genus-level names for potter wasps with non-petiolated
metasoma
The metasoma is the posterior part of the body, or tagma (biology), tagma, of arthropods whose body is composed of three parts, the other two being the prosoma and the mesosoma. In insects, it contains most of the digestive tract, respiratory sy ...
, such as ''
Euodynerus'', ''
Acarodynerus'', ''
Stenodynerus
''Stenodynerus'' is a rather large genus of potter wasps whose distribution spans the Nearctic, Palearctic, Oriental and Neotropical regions. Most of its species lack a transverse carina on the first metasomal tergum. A pair of medial pits on ...
'', ''
Parodontodynerus'' and ''
Incodynerus''.
Species
A partial species list of the hundreds of species classified under ''Odynerus'' is set out below:
* ''
Odynerus acuticarinatus''
( Cameron, 1909)
* ''
Odynerus acutocarinatus''
Cameron, 1909
* ''
Odynerus areatus''
Fox, 1902
* ''
Odynerus dorsonotatus''
Fox, 1902
* ''
Odynerus eburneofasciatus''
Dusmet, 1903
* ''
Odynerus ezechiae''
Schulthess, 1923
* ''
Odynerus herbertii''
Fox, 1902
* ''
Odynerus jeromensis''
Cameron, 1909
* ''
Odynerus longicornus''
Fox, 1902
* ''
Odynerus melanocephalus''
(Gmeling, 1790)
* ''
Odynerus pacator''
Giordani Soika, 1960
* ''
Odynerus pallidus''
Zavattari, 1912
* ''
Odynerus rufimaculus''
Fox, 1902
* ''
Odynerus simillimus''
Morawitz, 1867
* ''
Odynerus simplex''
Bingham, 1902
* ''
Odynerus spinipes''
(Linnaeus, 1758)
* ''
Odynerus striatus''
(Fox, 1902)
* ''
Odynerus zhelochovtzewi
''Odynerus'' is a primarily Holarctic genus of potter wasps.
The name of this genus has been widely used as a root to construct many other genus-level names for potter wasps with non-petiolated metasoma, such as ''Euodynerus'', ''Acarodynerus'', ...
''
Kostylev, 1929
[FOX, W. J. 1902. Contributions to a knowledge of the Hymenoptera of Brazil, Nº. 8.- Eumenidae, continued (Genus Odynerus). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 1902:44-69.]
References
Potter wasps
Hymenoptera genera
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