Alphamenes

Alphamenes
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Vespidae
Subfamily:	Eumeninae
Genus:	Alphamenes Vecht, 1977
Species
Alphamenes campanulatus (Fabricius, 1804) Alphamenes convexus (Fox, 1899) Alphamenes incertus (de Saussure, 1875) Alphamenes insignis (Fox, 1899) Alphamenes richardsi (Soika, 1978) Alphamenes semiplanus (Soika, 1978) Alphamenes usitatus (Fox, 1899)

Alphamenes is a small neotropical genus of potter wasps that currently contains 7 species, it was named by the Dutch entomologist Jacobus van der Vecht in 1977.

References

• 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.