Psenulus

Psenulus is a genus of wasps in the family Crabronidae. The 160 species are found worldwide, but are best represented in the Indomalayan realm with 68. The Palearctic has 26, the Nearctic 4, and the Australasian realm 3. Psenulus is largely absent from South America (1 species) and entirely absent from Melanesia and Polynesia.[1] A recent phylogenetic analysis provided strong evidence that this genus is the closest living relative to bees.[2]

Psenulus
Psenulus fuscipennis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Crabronidae
Subfamily: Pemphredoninae
Tribe: Psenini
Genus: Psenulus
Kohl, 1897
Type species
Psenulus fuscipennis
(Dahlbohm, 1843)

Species (Europa)
  • Psenulus berlandi Beaumont 1937
  • Psenulus concolor (Dahlbom 1843)
  • Psenulus cypriacus van Lith 1973
  • Psenulus fulvicornis (Schenck 1857)
  • Psenulus fuscipennis (Dahlbom 1843)
  • Psenulus hidalgo Guichard 1990
  • Psenulus laevigatus (Schenck 1857)
  • Psenulus meridionalis Beaumont 1937
  • Psenulus pallipes (Panzer 1798)
  • Psenulus schencki (Tournier 1889)

References
  1. California Academy of Sciences Institute of Biodiversity pdf
  2. Peters, Ralph S.; Krogmann, Lars; Mayer, Christoph; Donath, Alexander; Gunkel, Simon; Meusemann, Karen; Kozlov, Alexey; Podsiadlowski, Lars; Petersen, Malte; Lanfear, Robert; Diez, Patricia A.; Heraty, John; Kjer, Karl M.; Klopfstein, Seraina; Meier, Rudolf; Polidori, Carlo; Schmitt, Thomas; Liu, Shanlin; Zhou, Xin; Wappler, Torsten; Rust, Jes; Misof, Bernhard; Niehuis, Oliver (2017). "Evolutionary History of the Hymenoptera". Current Biology. 27 (7): 1013–1018. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2017.01.027. PMID 28343967.
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