Antamenes

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Antamenes
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mounted specimen of a male from the Victoria Museum
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Euarthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Vespidae
Subfamily: Eumeninae
Genus:Antamenes
(Giordani Soika, 1958)
Species

Antamenes is an Australasian genus of potter wasps.

Australasia region of Oceania

Australasia comprises Australia, New Zealand, and some neighbouring islands. It is used in a number of different contexts including geopolitically, physiographically, and ecologically where the term covers several several slightly different but related regions.

Potter wasp subfamily of insects

Potter wasps, the Eumeninae, are a cosmopolitan wasp group presently treated as a subfamily of Vespidae, but sometimes recognized in the past as a separate family, Eumenidae.

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