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Zethus
Zethus slossonae
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Vespidae
Subfamily:	Zethinae
Genus:	Zethus Fabricius, 1804
Type species
Vespa coeruleopennis Fabricius, 1798
Species
About 300 species see List of Zethus species

Zethus is a very large, mainly neotropical genus of potter wasps with some species representation also in the Nearctic, Afrotropical, Australian and Indomalayan regions.

The genus is subdivided into a few subgenera which nevertheless need a phylogenetic analysis to recognize their natural limits.

Species

See the separate list of Zethus species.

References

1. James Michael Carpenter (1986). "A Synonymic Generic Checklist of the Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)". Psyche: A Journal of Entomology. 93 (1–2): 61–90. doi:10.1155/1986/12489.

• Bohart, R. M. and L. A. Stange. 1965. A revision of the genus Zethus Fabricius in the Western Hemisphere (Hymenoptera: Eumenidae). Univ. Calif. Publ. Entomol. 40: 1–208.

External links

• Zethus spp., mason wasps of Florida on the UF / IFAS Featured Creatures Web site

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