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Leptochilus (wasp)

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Genus of wasps

Leptochilus
Leptochilus acolhuus (Saussure)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Vespidae
Subfamily: Eumeninae
Genus: Leptochilus
Saussure, 1853
Type species
Pterochilus mauritanicus
Lepeletier, 1841
Subgenera
  • Euleptochilus
  • Leptochilus
  • Lionotulus
  • Neoleptochilus
  • Sarochilus
  • Zandallia
Diversity
at least 210 species
Leptochilus republicanus

Leptochilus is a large, mostly Holarctic genus of small sized potter wasps. The genus reaches its largest diversity in the Palearctic where there are more than 135 species belonging to 5 subgenera. However the division of The division of Leptochilus into subgenera can not be fully supported and the status of some of them is dubious.

Species

The following list sets out some of the species included in Leptichilus:

Subgenus Euleptochilus

Leptochilus

Subgenus Lionutus

Subgenus Neoleptochilus

Subgenus Sarochilus

Subgenus Zendallia

See also

References

  • Parker, F. D. 1966. A revision of the North American species in the genus Leptochilus (Hymenoptera: Eumenidae). Misc. Publ. Entomol. Soc. Am. 5: 153–229.
Notes
  1. ^ James Michael Carpenter (1986). "A Synonymic Generic Checklist of the Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)". Psyche: A Journal of Entomology. 93 (1–2): 61–90. doi:10.1155/1986/12489.
  2. A. V. Fateryga (2013). "On the nest structure in two species of the genus Leptochilus (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Eumeninae)" (PDF). Vestnil Zoologii. 47 (5): 469–473. doi:10.2478/vzoo-2013-0045.
  3. F. Sanza; L. Castro; S.F. Gayubo (2003). "Las Especies Ibero-Baleares DdeE Lepyochilus (Sarochilus) Gusenleitner 1970 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae)" (PDF). Bolletin S.E.A. Entomolgica (in Spanish) (33): 25–32.
Taxon identifiers
Leptochilus

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