Synagris Explained

Synagris is an Afrotropical genus of large potter wasps. Several Synagris wasps are strongly sexually dimorphic and males bear notable morphological secondary sexual traits including metasomal lamellar or angular protruding structures and hornlike or tusklike mandibular and/or clypeal projections.

The few species of Synagris with known biology are also notable for guarding their nests and even attending and feeding their larvae during their development (progressive provisioning), a primitively social behavior unusual among eumenines, which normally practice mass provisioning.

There are 3 subgenera and 24 species currently recognized, with many species formerly in the genus now removed to the genera Pseudagris and Rhynchagris.^[1]

Species

Subgenus Hypagris de Saussure, 1855

Synagris abyssinica Guerin, 1848
Synagris aestuans (Fabricius, 1781)
Synagris analis Saussure, 1856
Synagris biplagiata Gusenleitner, 2005
Synagris calida (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synagris crassipes Kohl, 1894
Synagris elephas Andre, 1895
Synagris fasciata Mocsary, 1903
Synagris kohli Maidl, 1914
Synagris maxillosa Saussure, 1863
Synagris mirabilis Guerin, 1848
Synagris negusi Buysson, 1906
Synagris rubescens Giordani Soika, 1989
Synagris spiniventris (Illiger, 1802)
Synagris spinosuscula Saussure, 1852
Synagris stridens Giordani Soika, 1987

Subgenus Paragris de Saussure, 1855

Synagris huberti de Saussure, 1855
Synagris ornatissima Maidl, 1914
Synagris rufopicta Tullgren, 1904

Subgenus Synagris Latreille, 1802

Synagris cornuta (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synagris fulva Mocsary, 1903
Synagris proserpina Gribodo, 1891
Synagris similis Maidl, 1914

References

Bequaert, J. 1918. Vespidae of the Belgian Congo. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 39: 1–384.

External links

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Notes and References

Selis . Marco . Carpenter . James . 2022 . Cladistic analysis and reclassification of Synagris Latreille (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae) . . 5159 . 4 . 487–512 . 10.11646/ZOOTAXA.5159.4.2. 36095535 .