Zethus

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Hymenopterida
Ordo: Hymenoptera
Subordo: Apocrita
Superfamilia: Vespoidea

Familia: Vespidae
Subfamilia: Eumeninae
Genus: Zethus
Species: Z. aliceae – Z. asperipunctatus – Z. giseleae – Z. intermedius – Z. josefi – Z. nanlingensis – Z. nullimarginatus – Z. sinuostylus – Z. soikai – Z. striatus – Z. taiwanus – Z. velamellatus – Z. wileyi –
Name

Zethus Fabricius, 1805
References

Fabricius, J.C. 1805. Systema Antliatorum, secundum ordines, genera, species: adjectis synonymis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. pp.372. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.15806 Reference page.
Cooper, M. 2014: Two new species of Zethus Fabricius in the coeruleopennis group (Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Eumeninae). Entomologist's monthly magazine, 150(1796-98): 39–42. [Not seen] Reference page.
Hermes, M.G. 2012: Two new species of eumenine wasps in the genus Zethus Fabricius (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Eumeninae) from the New World. Zootaxa 3401: 43–48. Preview Reference page.
Hermes, M.G. & Lopes, R.B. 2018. A new species of Zethus Fabricius (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Zethinae) from Northeast Brazil, with notes on morphology and distributional records of Z. alessandroi Lopes. Zootaxa 4462(2): 245–260. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4462.2.6 Paywall Reference page.
Lopes, R.B., Noll, F.B. & Stange, L.A. 2017. Zethus (Zethus) wileyi (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Eumeninae), a new species with its own species-group. Zootaxa 4231(1): 137–144. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4231.1.11. Reference page.
Nguyen, L.T.P. & Xu, Z-F. 2017. First record of the genus Zethus Fabricius, 1804 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Eumeninae) from China with description of a new species. Zootaxa 4272(4): 596–600. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4272.4.10. Reference page.
Selis, M. 2017. Revision of the Zethus luzonensis species-group (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae), with description of a new species. Zootaxa 4232(3): 444–450. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4232.3.13. Reference page.
Selis, M. 2018. Additions to the knowledge of solitary wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae), with description of eight new species. Zootaxa 4403(3): 441–468. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4403.3.2 Reference page.
Tan, J-L., Carpenter, J.M. & van Achterberg, C. 2018. Most northern Oriental distribution of Zethus Fabricius (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Eumeninae), with a new species from China. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 62: 1–13. DOI: 10.3897/jhr.62.23196 Reference page.
Wang, H-C., Chen, B. & Li, T-J. 2019. Three new species of the genus Zethus Fabricius, 1804 (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Eumeninae) from China, with an updated key to the Oriental species. Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 71: 209–224. DOI: 10.3897/jhr.71.34871 Reference page.
Yeh, W-C. & Lu, S-S. 2017. New record of the genus Zethus Fabricius from Taiwan, with the description of Z. taiwanus sp. nov. and a key to the species of trimaculatus-group (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae). Zootaxa 4324(3): 529–540. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4324.3.7. Reference page.

Zethus is a very large, mainly neotropical genus of potter wasps with some species representation also in the Nearctic, Afrotropical, Australian and Indomalayan regions.

The genus is subdivided into a few subgenera which nevertheless need a phylogenetic analysis in order to recognize their natural limits.
Species

See the separate list of Zethus species.
References

James Michael Carpenter (1986). "A Synonymic Generic Checklist of the Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)". Psyche. 93: 61–90. doi:10.1155/1986/12489.

Bohart, R. M. and L. A. Stange. 1965. A revision of the genus Zethus Fabricius in the Western Hemisphere (Hymenoptera: Eumenidae). Univ. Calif. Publ. Entomol. 40: 1-208.