Monobia

Monobia
Monobia quadridens
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Vespidae
Subfamily: Eumeninae
Genus: Monobia
Saussure, 1852 [1]
Type species
Vespa quadridens
Carl Linnaeus, 1763 [1]

Monobia is a primarily neotropical genus of medium sized to large potter wasps occurring from the United States to Argentina.[2] This genus is very closely related to the genus Montezumia. It contains the following species:[2]

  • Monobia angulosa
  • Monobia anomala
  • Monobia apicalipennis
  • Monobia atrorubra
  • Monobia biangulata
  • Monobia californica
  • Monobia caliginosa
  • Monobia carbonaria
  • Monobia caridei
  • Monobia cingulata
  • Monobia curvata
  • Monobia cyanipennis
  • Monobia deplanata
  • Monobia egregia
  • Monobia eremna
  • Monobia funebris
  • Monobia incarum
  • Monobia insueta
  • Monobia lecointei
  • Monobia mochii
  • Monobia nayarit
  • Monobia nigripennis
  • Monobia paraguayensis
  • Monobia proeta
  • Monobia puertoricensis
  • Monobia quadridens
  • Monobia schrottkyi
  • Monobia scutellaris
  • Monobia texana
  • Monobia trifasciata
  • Monobia yacochuyae

References

  1. ^ a b James M. Carpenter (1986). "A synonymic generic checklist of the Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)" (PDF). Psyche 93: 61–90. http://psyche.entclub.org/pdf/93/93-061.pdf.