Synagris is an Afrotropical genus of large potter wasps. Several Synagris wasps are strongly sexually dimorphic and males bear notable morphological secondary sexual traits including metasomal lamellar or angular protruding structures and hornlike or tusklike mandibular and/or clypeal projections.

Synagris
Male Synagris sp.
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Vespidae
Subfamily: Eumeninae
Genus: Synagris
Latreille, 1802[1]
Type species
Synagris cornuta

The few species of Synagris with known biology are also notable for guarding their nests and even attending and feeding their larvae during their development (progressive provisioning), a primitively social behavior unusual among eumenines, which normally practice mass provisioning.

There are 3 subgenera and 24 species currently recognized, with many species formerly in the genus now removed to the genera Pseudagris and Rhynchagris.[2]

Species

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Subgenus Hypagris de Saussure, 1855

Subgenus Paragris de Saussure, 1855

Subgenus Synagris Latreille, 1802

References

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  1. ^ a b James Michael Carpenter (1986). "A Synonymic Generic Checklist of the Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)". Psyche: A Journal of Entomology. 93 (1–2): 61–90. doi:10.1155/1986/12489.
  2. ^ Selis, Marco; Carpenter, James (2022). "Cladistic analysis and reclassification of Synagris Latreille (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae)". Zootaxa. 5159 (4): 487–512. doi:10.11646/ZOOTAXA.5159.4.2. PMID 36095535.
  • Bequaert, J. 1918. Vespidae of the Belgian Congo. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 39: 1–384.
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