Synagris

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.

Synagris
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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Vespidae
Subfamily: Eumeninae
Genus: Synagris
Latreille, 1802[1]
Type species
Synagris cornuta
Subgenera and species

Paragris

  • Synagris abyssinica Guerin, 1848
  • Synagris aestuans (Fabricius, 1781)
  • Synagris analis Saussure, 1856
  • Synagris calida (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Synagris crassipes Kohl, 1894
  • Synagris elephas Andre, 1895
  • Synagris fasciata Mocsary, 1903
  • Synagris huberti Saussure, 1856
  • Synagris kohli Maidl, 1914
  • Synagris maxillosa Saussure, 1863
  • Synagris mirabilis Guerin, 1848
  • Synagris negusi Buysson, 1906
  • Synagris ornatissima Maidl, 1914
  • Synagris parvula Schulthess, 1928
  • Synagris rubescens Giordani Soika, 1989
  • Synagris rufopicta Tullgren, 1904
  • Synagris spiniventris (Illiger, 1802)
  • Synagris spinosuscula Saussure, 1852
  • Synagris stridens Giordani Soika, 1987

Pseudagris

  • Synagris aterrima Maidl, 1914
  • Synagris carinata Saussure, 1863
  • Synagris junodiana Schulthess, 1899
  • Synagris versicolor Schulthess, 1914

Rhynchagris

  • Synagris mediocarinata Giordani Soika, 1944
  • Synagris vicaria Stadelmann, 1897

Synagris

  • Synagris cornuta (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Synagris proserpina Gribodo, 1891
  • Synagris fulva Mocsary, 1903

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 4 subgenera and 28 species currently recognized.

References
  1. James Michael Carpenter (1986). "A Synonymic Generic Checklist of the Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)". Psyche. 93: 61–90. doi:10.1155/1986/12489.
  • Bequaert, J. 1918. Vespidae of the Belgian Congo. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 39: 1-384.


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