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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Yellowjackets and Hornets, Paper Wasps; Potter, Mason and Pollen Wasps and allies (Vespoidea) » Yellowjackets and Hornets, Paper Wasps; Potter, Mason and Pollen Wasps (Vespidae) » Potter and Mason Wasps (Eumeninae) » Eumenes

Genus Eumenes

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Food · Life Cycle · Works Cited
Wasp - Eumenes smithii - female Wasp - Eumenes Eumenes fraternus? - Eumenes fraternus Potter Wasp? - Eumenes Wasp - Eumenes fraternus Eumenes fraternus? - Eumenes Eumenes fraternus? - Eumenes fraternus - female Eumeninae - Potter and Mason Wasps Genus Eumenes - Eumenes
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon (Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps)
Superfamily Vespoidea (Yellowjackets and Hornets, Paper Wasps; Potter, Mason and Pollen Wasps and allies)
Family Vespidae (Yellowjackets and Hornets, Paper Wasps; Potter, Mason and Pollen Wasps)
Subfamily Eumeninae (Potter and Mason Wasps)
Genus Eumenes
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
New World fauna reviewed in (1)
Explanation of Names
Eumenes Latreille 1802
prob. from the name of winged goddesses of vengeance in Greek mythology; literally means 'gracious, kind'
Numbers
8 spp. in our area, 16 in the New World (all Eumenes s.str.), ~110 (and ~50 sspp.) in 2 subgenera total(1)
not yet in the guide: E. bequaerti Grandinete & Carpenter 2018 (brunneus Isely 1917 nec Spinola 1851), known from Colorado only
Size
~13-18 mm
Identification
key to Nearctic species in(1)(2)
key to eastern spp.(3)
Range
worldwide(3)
Food
Larvae feed on caterpillars or beetle larvae
Life Cycle
Female makes a pot of clay as a nest, places eggs on wall of cell, then provisions it with moth and beetle larvae
Larva (with caterpillars) -- pupa -- adult
Works Cited
1.Taxonomic review of Eumenes Latreille, 1802 (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Eumeninae) from the New World
Grandinete Y.C., Noll F.B., Carpenter J. 2018. Zootaxa 4459: 1-52.
2.A key to and notes on the Eumenes of America north of Mexico (Hymenoptera: Eumenidae)
Mac Lachlan W.B. 1980. J. Kans. Ent. Soc. 53: 617-621.
3.Identification Atlas of the Vespidae (Hymenoptera, Aculeata) of the Northeastern Nearctic Region
Matthias Buck, Stephen A. Marshall, and David K. B. Cheung. 2008. Biological Survey of Canada [Canadian Journal of Arthropod Identification].
Contributed by Cotinis on 7 September, 2004 - 12:32pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Hartmut Wisch, Matthias Buck, Chuck Entz, Aaron Schusteff, v belov
Last updated 11 March, 2019 - 3:43pm

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