Minixi

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.

Minixi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
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)

References
  1. 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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