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.
Chlorodynerus is an old world genus of potter wasps. The following species are included in this genus:
Ectopioglossa is a far eastern genus of potter wasps. It contains the following species:
Epsilon is an Indomalayan and Australasian 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.
Knemodynerus is a genus of potter wasps distributed through the Palearctic, Afrotropical, Indomalayan and Australasian regions. The species currently classified in the genus are:
Kennetia is a small Indomalayan genus of potter wasps. It should be spelled Kennethia but Antonio Giordani Soika misspelled the name in his original description of the genus.
Lissodynerus is an Indomalayan and Australasian genus of potter wasps. The following species are classified under Lissodynerus:
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.
Rhynchium is an Australian, Afrotropical, Indomalayan and Palearctic genus of potter wasps.
Eustenancistrocerus is an Afrotropical, Palearctic and Oriental genus of potter wasps. The species in this genus include:
Paravespa is an Afrotropical and Palearctic genus of potter wasps.
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.
Rhynchalastor is a moderately large afrotropical genus of potter wasps with 25 species currently known. Some authorities expand the genus to include species otherwise classified under related genera such as Stenodynerus
Gribodia is an Indomalayan genus of potter wasps. It contains the following species:
Phimenes is an Indomalayan and Australasian genus of potter wasps. The genus was formerly regarded as a synonym of Delta. The genus was separated from Eumenes by the Italian hymenopterist Antonio Giordani Soika when he elevated division IV of Eumenes, which Saussure had given the name Phi to, to full generic status. However, Giordani Soika noted that the name Phi was preoccupied by a subgenus of the New World polistine genus Mischocyttarus and he therefore chose to compound Phi with Eumenes into Phimenes as the name for the new taxon.
