Leptochilus (wasp)

Leptochilus is a large, mostly Holarctic genus of small sized potter wasps. The genus reaches its largest diversity in the Palearctic where there are more than 135 species belonging to 5 subgenera.[2] However the division of The division of Leptochilus into subgenera can not be fully supported and the status of some of them is dubious.[3]

Leptochilus
Leptochilus acolhuus (Saussure)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Vespidae
Subfamily: Eumeninae
Genus: Leptochilus
Saussure, 1853[1]
Type species
Pterochilus mauritanicus
Subgenera
  • Euleptochilus
  • Leptochilus
  • Lionotulus
  • Neoleptochilus
  • Sarochilus
  • Zandallia
Diversity
at least 210 species
Leptochilus republicanus

Species

The following list sets out some of the species included in Leptichilus:

Subgenus Euleptochilus

  • Leptochilus camurus (Giordani Soika, 1938)
  • Leptochilus cruentatus (Brullé, 1840)
  • Leptochilus duplicatus (Klug, 1835)
  • Leptochilus fortunatus Blüthgen, 1958
  • Leptochilus limbiferus (Moravitz, 1867)
  • Leptochilus rubellulus (Kohl, 1907)
  • Leptochilus somalicus Giordani Soika, 1987

Leptochilus

Subgenus Lionutus

  • Leptochilus aterrimus (Kirby, 1900)

Subgenus Neoleptochilus

  • Leptochilus medanae (Gribodo, 1886)
  • Leptochilus tuareg Gusenleitner, 2006

Subgenus Sarochilus

  • Leptochilus alterego Gusenleitner, 1970
  • Leptochilus brussiloffi (Dusmet 1917)
  • Leptochilus gayuboi Sanza 2003
  • Leptochilus ibizanus (Schulthess, 1934)
  • Leptochilus leopoldoi Sanza, 2003

Subgenus Zendallia

See also

References
  • Parker, F. D. 1966. A revision of the North American species in the genus Leptochilus (Hymenoptera: Eumenidae). Misc. Publ. Entomol. Soc. Am. 5: 153–229.
Notes
  1. James Michael Carpenter (1986). "A Synonymic Generic Checklist of the Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)". Psyche. 93 (1–2): 61–90. doi:10.1155/1986/12489.
  2. A. V. Fateryga (2013). "On the nest structure in two species of the genus Leptochilus (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Eumeninae)". Vestnil Zoologii. 47 (5): 469–473. doi:10.2478/vzoo-2013-0045.
  3. F. Sanza; L. Castro; S.F. Gayubo (2003). "Las Especies Ibero-Baleares DdeE Lepyochilus (Sarochilus) Gusenleitner 1970 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae)" (PDF). Bolletin S.E.A. Entomolgica (in Spanish) (33): 25–32.


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