Cephalastor

Cephalastor
Cephalastor
Cephalastor rominae Garcete-Barrett
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Vespidae
Subfamily: Eumeninae
Genus: Cephalastor
Species

12 species

Cephalastor is a small neotropical genus of potter wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae) currently containing 14 species[1][2][3].

The known species are:

  • Cephalastor sinusiticus Garcete-Barrett (Mexico)
  • Cephalastor lambayeque Garcete-Barrett (Coastal Peru)
  • Cephalastor bossanova Garcete-Barrett (Southern Brazil)
  • Cephalastor estela Garcete-Barrett (Paraguay and Brazil)
  • Cephalastor humeralis Garcete-Barrett & Hermes (Brazil)
  • Cephalastor mariachi Garcete-Barrett (Mexico)
  • Cephalastor minarum Garcete-Barrett & Hermes (Brazil)
  • Cephalastor abraham Garcete-Barrett (Ecuador)
  • Cephalastor tupasy Garcete-Barrett (Amazonian Peru)
  • Cephalastor relativus (Fox) (Surinam, Eastern Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia and Central Brazil)
  • Cephalastor rufosuffusus (Fox) (Guyana, Central Brazil and Paraguay)
  • Cephalastor paezi Garcete-Barrett (Colombian Llanos)
  • Cephalastor rominae Garcete-Barrett (Paraguayan Chaco)
  • Cephalastor chasqui Garcete-Barrett (Eastern Bolivia and Andean Peru)

References

  1. ^ Garcete-Barrett, B.R. (2001). "La taxonomía del Género Cephalastor Soika, parte I: el grupo relativus (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae). Boletín del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural del Paraguay. 13 : 5 - 26". https://sites.google.com/site/bolosphex/Home/publicaciones-1. 
  2. ^ Garcete-Barrett, B.R. (2003). "La taxonomía del Género Cephalastor Soika (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae), parte II. Boletín del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural del Paraguay. 14 : 80 - 97". https://sites.google.com/site/bolosphex/Home/publicaciones-1. 
  3. ^ Garcete-Barrett, B.R. & Hermes, M.G. (2010). "Two new species of Cephalastor Giordani Soika (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae), with a review of the phylogeny of the genus. Journal of Natural History 44 (25) : 1609 – 1630". http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a923078507~frm=abslink. 
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