Genus Knemodynerus Blüthgen

Knemodynerus Blüthgen 1940: 43, subgenus of “ Euodynerus Blüthgen ” [= Euodynerus Dalla Torre].

Type species: Odynerus excellens Pérez 1907, by original designation.

Trachyodynerus Giordani Soika 1989: 19, 60, genus.

Type species: Trachyodynerus dancaliensis Giordani Soika 1989, by original designation.

Taxonomy: Carpenter 1986: 73 (genus).— Giordani Soika 1994: 258–259 (key to Oriental species).— Gusenleitner 2012: 523, 529 (syn.: Trachyodynerus Giordani Soika).

Distribution: Widespread in the Old World.

Ethology: No reports on the Australian species. Elsewhere one species has been reported to nest in reeds.