Genus Zethus

Identification Atlas of the Vespidae (Hymenoptera, Aculeata) of the northeastern Nearctic region
CJAI 05, February 19, 2008
doi: 10.3752/cjai.2008.05

Matthias Buck, Stephen A. Marshall, and David K.B. Cheung

Department of Environmental Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1G 2W1

Zethus Fabricius

This is a very speciose Neotropical genus with numerous species in the Nearctic, Afrotropical and Oriental regions (Carpenter and Garcete-Barrett 2002). There are 30 Nearctic species (north of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec), and six species in America north of Mexico, five of which are restricted to the southernmost United States (Krombein 1979, Rodríguez-Palafox 1996).

References. – Porter, 1978 (key to North American species); Bohart and Stange, 1965 (revision of New World species, key).

Only northeastern Nearctic species: Zethus spinipes Say