Genus Eumenes Latreille

Eumenes Latreille 1802: 360, genus.

Type species: “ Eumenes coarctata Fab. ” [= Vespa coarctata Linnaeus, 1758], by subsequent designation of Latreille 1810: 438.

Alpha de Saussure 1855: 128, 137, name for division I of genus Eumenes Latreille in de Saussure 1852: 28 [junior homonym of Alpha de Saussure 1854].

Type species: Vespa coarctata Linnaeus, 1758, by subsequent designation of Bequaert 1926b: 485.

Eumenis Kriechbaumer 1879: 57 (unjustified emendation of Eumenes Latreille).

Eumenidion von Schulthess 1913: 2, subgenus of Eumenes Latreille.

Type species: “ Eumenes coarctatus L.” [= Vespa coarctata Linnaeus, 1758], by original designation.

Taxonomy: Fox 1899: 439 (Eumemes [!]).— Bertoni 1910: 36 (Eumes [!]).— Sharp 1914: 275 ( Eumenidium [!]).— Cardale 1985: 176 (cat.).

Distribution: Cosmopolitan.

Ethology: No reports on Australian species. Where studied, the species build mud nests consisting of jug-like cells on the substrate, and provision them with caterpillars.