Minixi
| Minixi | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Vespidae |
| Subfamily: | Eumeninae |
| Genus: | Minixi Giordani Soika, 1978[1] |
| Type species | |
| Eumenes mexicanus Saussure, 1857[1] | |
| Species | |
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Minixi is a small neotropical genus of potter wasps currently containing 4 species. One species (Minixi mexicanum) is restricted to Southern United States, Mexico and Central America. The other three species are rather common and widespread through eastern South America.
References
[edit]- 1 2 James Michael Carpenter (1986). "A Synonymic Generic Checklist of the Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)". Psyche: A Journal of Entomology. 93 (1–2): 61–90. doi:10.1155/1986/12489.
- 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.