Afreumenes violaceus

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Afreumenes violaceus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Hymenoptera
Family:
Vespidae
Genus:
Afreumenes
Species:
A. violaceus
Binomial name
Afreumenes violaceus
(Giordani Soika, 1941)

Afreumenes violaceus is a species of wasp in the Vespidae family. It was described by Giordani Soika in 1941. [1]

Wasp members of the order Hymenoptera which are not ants nor bees (compare Q1065202, Q1076176)

A wasp is any insect of the order Hymenoptera and suborder Apocrita that is neither a bee nor an ant. The Apocrita have a common evolutionary ancestor and form a clade; wasps as a group do not form a clade, but are paraphyletic with respect to bees and ants.

Vespidae family of insects

The Vespidae are a large, diverse, cosmopolitan family of wasps, including nearly all the known eusocial wasps and many solitary wasps. Each social wasp colony includes a queen and a number of female workers with varying degrees of sterility relative to the queen. In temperate social species, colonies usually only last one year, dying at the onset of winter. New queens and males (drones) are produced towards the end of the summer, and after mating, the queens hibernate over winter in cracks or other sheltered locations. The nests of most species are constructed out of mud, but polistines and vespines use plant fibers, chewed to form a sort of paper. Many species are pollen vectors contributing to the pollination of several plants, being potential or even effective pollinators, while others are notable predators of pest insect species.

Subspecies

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<i>Eumenes</i> (wasp) genus of insects

Eumenes is the type genus of the subfamily Eumeninae of Vespidae. It is a large and widespread genus, with over 100 taxa, mostly occurring in the temperate portions of the Northern Hemisphere. Most species are black or brown, and commonly marked with strikingly contrasting patterns of yellow, white, orange, or red. Like most vespids, their wings are folded longitudinally at rest. The first metasomal segment is narrow and elongated, creating a "bulbous" appearance to the abdomen.

<i>Katamenes</i> genus of insects

Katamenes is a genus of potter wasps with species distributed in Europe and Africa. When originally named by Edmund Meade-Waldo, Katemenes was monotypic, containing only K. watsoni, but other species have since been moved from Eumenes to Katamenes.

Cyrtolabulus is an African, Indomalayan and Palearctic genus of potter wasps. It contains the following species:

Ectopioglossa is a far eastern genus of potter wasps. It contains the following species:

Stenodyneriellus is an Australasian and Indomalayan genus of potter wasps.

Subancistrocerus is an Australian, Indomalayan, African and Palearctic genus of potter wasps. Males of this genus used to have an enlarged antennal tip.

Eudiscoelius is an Australasian genus of potter wasps. They are notable for their strongly metallic green to violet bodies. The following species are among those included in Eudiscoelius:

Stroudia is an Afrotropical genus of potter wasps.

Leptomenes is a mainly Afrotriopicalgenus of potter wasps, it was previously a much larger genus but a number of other genera have now been described for species which were formerly members of this genus, e.g. Eumenidiopsis, Stroudia and Tachymenes.

Pseudepipona is a genus of potter wasps found in the Palearctic, Nearctic, Afrotropical and Australian regions.

Pseudonortonia is a fairly large genus of potter wasps with a rich Afrotropical fauna, as well as with several species which occur throughout the Palearctic and Indomalayan regions.

Labus is an Indomalayan genus of potter wasps. It contains the following species:

Antonio Giordani Soika was an Italian entomologist, ecologist and director of the Civic Museum of Natural History of Venice. He had a long career in which he worked on various groups of insects but much of his work was on the Hymenoptera. He made great contributions to the knowledge of Neotropical wasps, especially potter wasps for which he produced many taxonomic keys and also monographs on the systematics of the wasp family Vespidae.

Afreumenes aethiopicus is a species of wasp in the Vespidae family. It was described by Saussure in 1852.

Afreumenes aterrimus is a species of wasp in the Vespidae family. It was described by Schulthess in 1910.

Afreumenes erythrosoma is a species of wasp in the Vespidae family. It was described by Giordani Soika in 1940.

Afreumenes melanosoma is a species of wasp in the Vespidae family. It was described by Saussure in 1852.

Afreumenes nigrorufus is a species of wasp in the Vespidae family. It was described by Giordani Soika in 1968.

Afreumenes moseri is a species of potter wasp in the family Vespidae. It was described by Schulz and 1906.

References

  1. ↑ Afreumenes violaceus at www.biolib.cz.


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