Santamenes Explained

Santamenes is a small but widely distributed neotropical genus of potter wasp. It has been proposed that Santamenes, be merged into Pachymenes.^[1] .

References

• Giordani Soika, A. 1990. Revisione degli Eumenidi neotropicali appartenenti ai generi Pachymenes Sauss., Santamenes n. gen., Brachymenes G. S., Pseudacaromenes G. S., Stenosigma G. S. e Gamma Zav. (Hymenoptera). Boll. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Venezia 39: 71–172.

Notes and References

1. Grandinete . Yuri Campanholo . Hermes . Marcel Gustavo . Noll . Fernando Barbosa . Systematics and phylogeny of the Neotropical Pachymenes de Saussure and Santamenes Giordani Soika (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Eumeninae) . Systematic Entomology . 40 . 365–384 . 2015 . 2 . 10.1111/syen.12105. 2015SysEn..40..365G .