Vespidae phylogenomics and the origins of eusociality

New species of Ancistrocerus (Vespidae, Eumeninae) from the Neotropics with a checklist and key to all species south of the Rio Grande

“…Recently, Eumeninae was limited to include only the tribes Eumenini and Odynerini, and is comprised of a total of 3407 described species (Bank et al 2017; Piekarski 2017). Ancistrocerus belongs to the tribe Odynerini in the sense of Hermes et al (2014), but that tribe was not supported by the large-scale phylogenomic analysis by Bank et al (2017) and Piekarski (2017). Due to their close relationship to eusocial wasps, understanding the biology and relationships among solitary potter wasps has implications for the conception of how sociality emerged (Hunt 2007).…”