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Katamenes
Sign in to saveKatamenes 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.
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- Switzerland
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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.
==Species== The following species are currently recognised as being classified within Katamenes: 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
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Katamenes” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.