Genus Eumenes Latreille Eumenes Latreille 1802: 360, genus. Type species: “ Eumenes coarctata Fab. ” [= Vespa coarctata Linnaeus, 1758], by subsequent designation of Latreille 1810: 438. Alpha de Saussure 1855: 128, 137, name for division I of genus Eumenes Latreille in de Saussure 1852: 28 [junior homonym of Alpha de Saussure 1854]. Type species: Vespa coarctata Linnaeus, 1758, by subsequent designation of Bequaert 1926b: 485. Eumenis Kriechbaumer 1879: 57 (unjustified emendation of Eumenes Latreille). Eumenidion von Schulthess 1913: 2, subgenus of Eumenes Latreille. Type species: “ Eumenes coarctatus L.” [= Vespa coarctata Linnaeus, 1758], by original designation. Taxonomy: Fox 1899: 439 (Eumemes [!]).— Bertoni 1910: 36 (Eumes [!]).— Sharp 1914: 275 (Eumenidium [!]).— Cardale 1985: 176 (cat.). Distribution: Cosmopolitan. Ethology: No reports on Australian species. Where studied, the species build mud nests consisting of jug-like cells on the substrate, and provision them with caterpillars.

Published as part of Carpenter, James M. & Brown, Graham R., 2021, Catalogue of the Australian Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 4919 (1) on page 18, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4919.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4473370