Stenodynerus

Ebrahimi, Ebrahim & Carpenter, James M., 2008, Catalog of the vespid wasps of Iran (Hymenoptera, Vespidae), Zootaxa 1785, pp. 1-42 : 31-32

Genus Stenodynerus de Saussure

Stenodynerus chitgarensis Giordani Soika

Material examined: Tehrān: Abali, 9–10.VII.1965, det. Giordani Soika (deposited in ZMHB).

Remarks: The following species were previously recorded from Iran but were not collected: Stenodynerus bluethgeni van der Vecht, S. fastidiosissimus difficilis (Morawitz) , S. sapidus Giordani Soika , and S. xanthomelas (Herrich-Schaeffer) .

Twenty-one other genera of Eumeninae have been recorded from Iran in the literature (see van der Vecht and Fischer, 1972; Blüthgen and Gusenleitner, 1970), but were not recently collected. These are nevertheless included in the key, and the list of these genera and the species recorded from Iran follows.