Katamenes is a genus of potter wasps with species distributed in Europe and Africa. When originally named by Edmund Meade-Waldo, Katemenes was monotypic, containing only K. watsoni, but other species have since been moved from Eumenes to Katamenes.
Species
The following species are currently recognised as being classified within Katamenes:
- Katamenes algirus <small>(Schulz 1905)</small>
- Katamenes arbustorum <small>(Panzer 1799)</small>
- Katamenes dimidiatus <small>(Brullé 1832)</small>
- Katamenes dimidiativentris <small>(Giordani Soika, 1941)</small>
- Katamenes flavigularis <small>(Blüthgen 1951)</small>
- Katamenes indetonsus <small>(Moravitz, 1895)</small>
- Katamenes jenjouristei <small>(Kostylev, 1939)</small>
- Katamenes kashmirensis <small>(Giordani Soika, 1939)</small>
- Katamenes libycus <small>(Giordani Soika, 1941)</small>
- Katamenes microcephalus <small>(Saussure, 1852)</small>
- Katamenes niger <small>(Brullé, 1836)</small>
- Katamenes priesneri <small>(Giordani Soika, 1941)</small>
- Katamenes radoszkovskii <small>Blüthgen, 1962</small>
- Katamenes rauensis <small>Giordani Soika, 1958</small>
- Katamenes sichelii <small>(Saussure 1852)</small>
- Katamenes tauricus <small>(Saussure, 1855)</small>
- Katamenes watsoni <small>Meade-Waldo, 1910</small>
References
- Carpenter, J.M., J. Gusenleitner & M. Madl. 2010a. A Catalogue of the Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) of the Ethiopian Region excluding Malagasy Subregion. Part II: Genera Delta de Saussure 1885 to Zethus Fabricius 1804 and species incertae sedis. Linzer Biologischer Beitrage 42 (1): 95-315.