Minixi

Minixi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Clade:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Hymenoptera
Family:Vespidae
Subfamily:Eumeninae
Genus:Minixi
Giordani Soika, 1978[1]
Type species
Eumenes mexicanus Saussure, 1857[1]
Species
  • Minixi brasilianum (Saussure, 1875)
  • Minixi mexicanum (Saussure, 1857)
  • Minixi suffusum (Fox 1899)
  • Minixi tricoloratum (Zavattari, 1911)

Minixi is a small neotropical genus of potter wasps currently containing 4 species. One species (Minixi mexicanum) is restricted to Southern United States, Mexico and Central America. The other three species are rather common and widespread through eastern South America.

References

  1. 1 2 James Michael Carpenter (1986). "A Synonymic Generic Checklist of the Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)". Psyche. 93: 61–90. doi:10.1155/1986/12489.
  • Giordani Soika, A. 1978. Revisione degli Eumenidi neotropicali appartenenti ai generi Eumenes Latr., Omicron (Sauss.), Pararaphidoglossa Schulth. ed affini. Boll. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Venezia 29: 1-420.


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