Katamenes

Katamenes is a genus of potter wasps with species distributed in Europe and Africa.^[2] 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.^[1]

Species

The following species are currently recognised as being classified within Katamenes:^[3][4]

• Katamenes algirus (Schulz 1905)
• Katamenes arbustorum (Panzer 1799)
• Katamenes dimidiatus (Brullé 1832)
• Katamenes dimidiativentris (Giordani Soika, 1941)
• Katamenes flavigularis (Blüthgen 1951)
• Katamenes indetonsus (Moravitz, 1895)
• Katamenes jenjouristei (Kostylev, 1939)
• Katamenes kashmirensis (Giordani Soika, 1939)
• Katamenes libycus (Giordani Soika, 1941)
• Katamenes microcephalus (Saussure, 1852)
• Katamenes niger (Brullé, 1836)
• Katamenes priesneri (Giordani Soika, 1941)
• Katamenes radoszkovskii Blüthgen, 1962
• Katamenes rauensis Giordani Soika, 1958
• Katamenes sichelii (Saussure 1852)
• Katamenes tauricus (Saussure, 1855)
• Katamenes watsoni Meade-Waldo, 1910

References

• Carpenter, J.M., J. Gusenleitner & M. Madl. 2010a. A Catalogue of the Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) of the Ethiopian Region excluding Malagasy Subregion. Part II: Genera Delta de Saussure 1885 to Zethus Fabricius 1804 and species incertae sedis. Linzer Biologischer Beitrage 42 (1): 95-315.