Ancistroceroides de Saussure, a Potter Wasp Genus New for the United States, with a New Key to the Genera of Eumeninae of America North of Mexico (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)

Conspecific Pollen on Insects Visiting Female Flowers ofPhoradendron juniperinum(Viscaceae) in Western Arizona

“…Halictidae were identified to genus and subgenus with Michener (2000). Vespidae were keyed to family and subfamily with Borror et al (1981), to genus with Carpenter (2004), and to species with Bohart (1952). Chalcidoidea were identified to family or genus by Roger Burks.…”

Biodiversity of Hymenoptera

“…Spradberry (1973) discussed the natural history of some. Recent generic keys exist only for the Eumeninae of the Western Hemisphere and Vespidae of northeastern North America (Carpenter and Garcete-Barrett 2003, Carpenter 2004, Buck et al 2008). The Masarinae, or pollen wasps, include about 300 species.…”

AreMonobiaandMontezumiaMonophyletic? A Cladistic Analysis of their Species Groups Based on Morphological Data (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Eumeninae)

“…Monobia and Montezumia, as recognized herein, can be readily separated by the submarginal carina raised above the propodeal orifice in the latter, following the key provided by Carpenter andGarcete-Barrett (2003 [2002]). This condition was also recovered as synapomorphic for the species included in Montezumia in our analysis (see discussion above).…”

“…3733 fauna of this region has received little attention regarding its suprageneric and generic classification, especially in the Neotropics. During the last century, the splitting of old Eumeninae genera into several others, as well as proposals for new ones, were undertaken by many authors (Bohart, 1940;Parker, 1966;Willink, 1967;Snelling, 1975;Giordani Soika, 1978;Bohart, 1982;1984;Giordani Soika, 1990), resulting in generic classifications that must be rationalized by the synonymy of numerous taxa (Carpenter andGarcete-Barrett, 2003 [2002]). Furthermore, the current classification was never tested by cladistic methods, which reinforces the opinion that irrational splitting might have resulted in the creation of unnatural taxa.…”

“…There are 53 genera and about 1050 species of Eumeninae occurring in the New World (Carpenter andGarcete-Barrett, 2003 [2002]; Carpenter, 2004;West-Eberhard et al, 2006). The 2 AMERICAN MUSEUM NOVITATES NO.…”