Eumenes Latreille, 1802

Siddiqui, Junaid Ali, Bodlah, Imran, Carpenter, James M., Naeem, Muhammad, Ahmad, Munir & Bodlah, Muhammad Adnan, 2015, Vespidae (Hymenoptera) of the Pothwar region of Punjab, Pakistan, Zootaxa 3914 (5), pp. 501-524 : 503-504

Genus Eumenes Latreille, 1802

Eumenes Latreille, 1802: 360 . Type species: “ Eumenes coarctata, Fab. ” [= Vespa coarctata Linnaeus, 1758 ], by subsequent designation of Latreille 1810: 438.

Alpha de Saussure, 1855: 128, 137, pl. VII, name for division I of genus Eumenes Latreille in de Saussure, 1852, loc. cit. 1: 28. Junior homonym of Alpha de Saussure, 1854. Type species: Vespa coarctata Linnaeus , by subsequent designation of Bequaert 1926: 485.

Eumenis Kriechbaumer, 1879: 57 . Unjustified emendation.

Eumenidion von Schulthess, 1913: 2, as subgenus of Eumenes Latreille. Type species: “ Eumenes coarctatus L.” [= Ves pa coarctata Linnaeus, 1758 ], by original designation.

The genus Eumenes is large and widespread, with more than 100 species and 45 additional subspecies, mostly reported from temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere (van der Vecht & Fischer 1972, Krombein 1979). Coloration of these wasps varies from black and brown with yellow, orange, red or white markings. Their metasoma appears to be "bulbous" with the first metasomal segment narrow and elongated.