Cephalastor

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Cephalastor
Cephalastor rominae Garcete-Barrett
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Hymenoptera Family: Vespidae Subfamily: Eumeninae Genus: Cephalastor
Species
12 species

Cephalastor is a small neotropical genus of potter wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae) currently containing 12 species^{[1] [2]}.

The known species are:

• Cephalastor sinusiticus Garcete-Barrett (Mexico)
• Cephalastor lambayeque Garcete-Barrett (Coastal Peru)
• Cephalastor bossanova Garcete-Barrett (Southern Brazil)
• Cephalastor estela Garcete-Barrett (Paraguay)
• Cephalastor mariachi Garcete-Barrett (Mexico)
• Cephalastor abraham Garcete-Barrett (Ecuador)
• Cephalastor tupasy Garcete-Barrett (Amazonian Peru)
• Cephalastor relativus (Fox) (Surinam, Eastern Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia and Central Brazil)
• Cephalastor rufosuffusus (Fox) (Guyana, Central Brazil and Paraguay)
• Cephalastor paezi Garcete-Barrett (Colombian Llanos)
• Cephalastor rominae Garcete-Barrett (Paraguayan Chaco)
• Cephalastor chasqui Garcete-Barrett (Eastern Bolivia and Andean Peru)

[edit] References

1. ^ Garcete-Barrett, Bolívar Rafael (2001). La taxonomía del Género Cephalastor Soika, parte I: el grupo relativus (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae). Boletín del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural del Paraguay. 13 : 5 - 26.
2. ^ Garcete-Barrett, Bolívar Rafael (2003). La taxonomía del Género Cephalastor Soika (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae), parte II. Boletín del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural del Paraguay. 14 : 80 - 97.