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Pterocheilus Klug, 1805, Beitr. Natuurk. 1: 143. Type species Vespa 
phalerata Panzer, 1797. Designated by Blanchard, 1840, in 
Laporte, Hist. Nat. Ins. 3: 389. 
Pterochilus (!) Illiger, 1807, Mag. Insektenk. 6: 196. 
Pterochile (!) Blanchard, 1840, in Laporte, Hist. Nat. Ins. 3: 
389. 
Pterochylus (!) Saussure, 1853, Et.Fam. Vesp. 1: 239. 
Odontopterochilus Kostylev, 1940, Bull. Soc. Nat. Moscou, 
Biol. (N. S.) 49: 148 (as subgenus of Pterocheilus). Invalid; 
no type designated. Made available by Vecht, 1971, Entomol. 
Ber. (Amst.) 31: 127; with type species Pterocheilus heptneri 
Kostylev, 1940. 
Nannopterochilus Bluethgen, 1961, Ab. Dts. Akad. Wiss. Berl. 
1961: 62, 86, 231. Type species Vespa phalerata Panzer, 1797. 
Original designation. 
subg. Megapterocheilus Bohart, 1940, Ann. Entomol. Soc. 
Am. 33: 169, 173. Type species Pterochilus mirandus Cres- 
son, 1879. Original designation, 
subg. Onchopterocheilus Bohart, 1940, Ann. Entomol. Soc. 
Am. 33: 169, 191. Type species Pterochilus comptus Cresson, 
1879. Original designation. 
subg. Micropterocheilus Bohart, 1940, Ann. Entomol. Soc. 
Am. 33: 168, 201. Type species Pterocheilus desertorum 
Bohart, 1940. Original designation. 
Pteromenes Soika, 1961 (1960), Atti Soc. Ital. Sci. Nat. 99: 389, 407. 
Type species Pterochilus paradisiacus Soika, 1941. Original 
designation. 
Raphiglossa Saunders, 1850, Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. (2)1: 
71. Type species Raphiglossa eumenoides Saunders, 1850. 
Designated by Ashmead, 1902, Can. Ent. 34: 206. 
Raphidoglossa Dalla Torre, 1894, Cat. Hym. 9: 7. Emendation. 
Raphiglossoides Soika, 1936, Boll. Soc. Entomol. Ital. 68: 77. Type 
species Raphiglossoides aethiopicus Soika, 1936. Original 
designation. 
Rhynchalastor Meade-Waldo, 1910, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8)6(31): 
110. Type species Rhynchalastor fuscipennis Meade-Waldo, 
1910. Monotypic. 
Rhynchium Spinola, 1806, emendation of Rygchium Spinola, 1806; 
validated by ICZN, Opinion 747, 1965: 186. Type species Ryg- 
