Paraleptomenes Explained

Paraleptomenes is a primarily Indomalayan genus of potter wasps. There is a single species, Paraleptomenes miniatus, reported outside of the region, from the island of Mauritius in the Afrotropical region.^[1]

Species

Paraleptomenes contains the following eleven species:^[2]

• Paraleptomenes communis Giordani Soika, 1994
• Paraleptomenes darugiriensis Kumar, Carpenter & Sharma, 2014
• Paraleptomenes guichardi Giordani Soika, 1994
• Paraleptomenes humbertianus (Saussure, 1867)
• Paraleptomenes incultus Nguyen & Nguyen, 2020
• Paraleptomenes kosempoensis (Schulthess, 1934)
• Paraleptomenes miniatus (Saussure, 1855)
• Paraleptomenes nurseanus Giordani Soika, 1970
• Paraleptomenes rufoniger Giordani Soika, 1994
• Paraleptomenes setaceus Bai, Chen & Li, 2022
• Paraleptomenes transfoveolus Bai, Chen & Li, 2022

Notes and References

1. Girish P. Kumar . James M. Carpenter . Gaurav Sharma . 2014 . A review of the genus Paraleptomenes Giordani Soika 1970 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae: Odynerini) from the Indian subcontinent with a description of a new species from the eastern Himalayas . Zootaxa . 3802 . 1 . 131–143. 10.11646/zootaxa.3802.1.11 . 24870998 .
2. Bai . Yue Bai . Carpenter . James M. . Chen . Bin . Li . Ting-Jing . 29 April 2022 . A review of the genus Paraleptomenes Giordani Soika, 1970 (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Eumeninae) from China, with descriptions of two new species . Journal of Hymenoptera Research . 90 . 185–199 . 10.3897/jhr.90.82546. free .