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Odynerus

Odynerus
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Odynerus spinipes (Linnaeus)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Vespidae
Subfamily: Eumeninae
Genus: Odynerus
Latreille, 1802
Type species
Vespa spinipes Linnaeus, 1758

Odynerus is a primarily Holarctic genus of potter wasps.

The name of this genus has been widely used as a root to construct many other genus-level names for potter wasps with non-petiolated metasoma, such as Euodynerus, Acarodynerus, Stenodynerus, Parodontodynerus and Incodynerus.

A partial species list of the hundreds of species classified under Odynerus is set out below:


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