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Subfamily Eumeninae - Potter and Mason Wasps


Delta campaniforme rendalli (Bingham) and Zeta argillaceum (Linnaeus) established in southern Florida...
By Menke A.S., Stange L.A.
Fla. Entomol. 69: 697-702, 1986
Full title: Delta campaniforme rendalli (Bingham) and Zeta argillaceum (Linnaeus) established in southern Florida, and comments on generic discretion in Eumenes s.l. (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae)
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A review of Micropterocheilus Bohart, with its elevation to generic rank and description of new species (Hymenoptera: Eumenidae)
By Richard M. Bohart
Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 72(2):197-213, 1999
First page at JSTOR

Elevates the former subgenus Micropterocheilus of Pterocheilus to generic rank, and contains a key and descriptions and/or discussions for 22 species therein...10 of them newly described.

Ancistroceroides de Saussure, a Potter Wasp Genus New for the United States, with a New Key to the Genera of Eumeninae N. of Mex
By Carpenter, James M.
Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 77(4): 721-741, 2004
Provides a key to genera of nearctic Eumeninae north of Mexico.

North American Pterocheilus. 1. Subgenus Onchopterocheilus (Hymenoptera: Eumenidae)
By Bohart R.M.
Pan-Pac. entomol. 65: 156-161, 1989

North American Pterocheilus. III. Subgenus Megapterocheilus (Hymenoptera, Eumenidae)
By Bohart R.M.
Insecta Mundi 10: 217-224, 1996

A review of Micropterocheilus R.Bohart, with its elevation to generic rank and description of new species (Hym., Eumenidae)
By Bohart R.M.
J. Kans. Ent. Soc. 72: 197-213, 1999
(Micropterocheilus is now treated as a subgen. of Pterocheilus)
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Taxonomy of the typical subgenus Odynerus in North America.
By Bohart, R.M.
Pan-Pacific Entomologist, 15: 76–84., 1939

The first documented migration of a potter wasp, Ancistrocerus adiabatus (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae).
By Jeffrey H. Skevington and Matthias Buck
The Canadian Field Naturalist 135(2): 117-119, 2021