A SYNONYMIC GENERIC CHECKLIST OF THE 
EUMENINAE (HYMENOPTERA: VESPIDAE)* 
By James M. Carpenter 
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 
Cambridge, MA 02138 
The present work is an extension of a similar list in Carpenter 
(1983), and arose from preparatory work for a phylogenetic analysis 
of nearctic potter wasp genera (Carpenter and Cumming, 1985). The 
most recent available world list of genera is over 80 years old (Dalla 
Torre, 1904), and fully 57% of the genus-group names currently 
used in the Eumeninae have been proposed since Bluethgen (1938; 
for more detail on the history of eumenine taxonomy see Carpenter 
and Cumming, 1985). The following checklist includes all the cur- 
rently recognized genera of Eumeninae sensu Carpenter (1981), with 
their synonyms and subgenera. The arrangement is alphabetical 
based upon most recent usage, and incorporates the decisions per- 
taining to eumenine generic nomenclature rendered by the Interna- 
tional Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) in Opinions 
747 (1965), 893 (1970) and 1363 (1985). The format is basically that 
of Krombein et al. (1979). The original citations are followed by the 
type species designation. Synonyms, and subgenera with their cit- 
ations and synonyms, are listed after this; the nominotypical sub- 
genera are not listed separately. Where two dates are listed, the first 
is the true date of publication, whereas the date listed in parentheses 
is that printed on the paper. A misspelling is indicated by (!), and 
quotation marks are used for incorrect names. No effort has been 
made to list all misspellings; only those occurring in works consi- 
dered important. Nomenclatural changes derive from ongoing work 
on a catalog of neotropical eumeninae (with J. van der Vecht) and a 
generic reclassification of this group: Neodiscoelius Stange is a jun- 
ior objective synonym of Proto discoelius Dalla Torre (new synon- 
ymy); Cephalastor Soika is raised to genus (new status), and its type 
species, Hyp alast oroides depressus Soika, synonymized with Ody- 
nerus relativus Fox. In addition, type species are designated for 
* Manuscript received by the editor July 14, 1985 
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