Odynerus

Odynerus
Odynerus spinipes (Linnaeus)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Clade:	Euarthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Vespidae
Subfamily:	Eumeninae
Genus:	Odynerus Latreille, 1802
Type species
Vespa spinipes Linnaeus, 1758

Odynerus is a primarily Holarctic genus of potter wasps.

The name of this genus has been widely used as a root to construct many other genus-level names for potter wasps with non-petiolated metasoma, such as Euodynerus, Acarodynerus, Stenodynerus, Parodontodynerus and Incodynerus.

Species

A partial species list of the hundreds of species classified under Odynerus is set out below:

• Odynerus acuticarinatus (Cameron, 1909)
• Odynerus acutocarinatus Cameron, 1909
• Odynerus eburneofasciatus Dusmet, 1903
• Odynerus ezechiae Schulthess, 1923
• Odynerus jeromensis Cameron, 1909
• Odynerus melanocephalus (Gmeling, 1790)
• Odynerus pacator Giordani Soika, 1960
• Odynerus pallidus Zavattari, 1912
• Odynerus simillimus Morawitz, 1867
• Odynerus simplex Bingham, 1902
• Odynerus spinipes (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Odynerus zhelochovtzewi Kostylev, 1929

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