Genus of wasps
Cephalastor is a small neotropical genus of potter wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae) currently containing 14 species.[1][2][3]
The known species are:
- Cephalastor sinusiticus Garcete-Barrett, 2002 (Mexico)
- Cephalastor lambayeque Garcete-Barrett, 2002 (Coastal Peru)
- Cephalastor bossanova Garcete-Barrett, 2002 (Southern Brazil)
- Cephalastor estela Garcete-Barrett, 2002 (Paraguay and Brazil)
- Cephalastor humeralis Garcete-Barrett & Hermes, 2009 (Brazil)
- Cephalastor mariachi Garcete-Barrett, 2001 (Mexico)
- Cephalastor minarum Garcete-Barrett & Hermes, 2009 (Brazil)
- Cephalastor abraham Garcete-Barrett, 2001 (Ecuador)
- Cephalastor tupasy Garcete-Barrett, 2001 (Peruvian Amazon)
- Cephalastor relativus (Fox, 1902) (Suriname, Eastern Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia and Central Brazil)
- Cephalastor rufosuffusus (Fox, 1902) (Guyana, Central Brazil and Paraguay)
- Cephalastor paezi Garcete-Barrett, 2001 (Colombian Llanos)
- Cephalastor rominae Garcete-Barrett, 2001 (Paraguayan Chaco)
- Cephalastor chasqui Garcete-Barrett, 2001 (Eastern Bolivia and Andean Peru)
References
- ^ Garcete-Barrett, B.R. (2001). "La taxonomía del Género Cephalastor Soika, parte I: el grupo relativus (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae). Boletín del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural del Paraguay. 13 : 5 - 26".
- ^ Garcete-Barrett, B.R. (2003). "La taxonomía del Género Cephalastor Soika (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae), parte II. Boletín del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural del Paraguay. 14 : 80 - 97".
- ^ Garcete-Barrett, B.R.; Hermes, M.G. (2010). "Two new species of Cephalastor Giordani Soika (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae), with a review of the phylogeny of the genus. Journal of Natural History 44 (25) : 1609–1630".
