Genus Pararrhynchium de Saussure Pararrhynchium de Saussure 1855: 173, division of genus Rhynchium Spinola. Type species: Rynchium ornatum Smith 1852, by monotypy. Prorhynchium de Saussure 1855: 174, division of genus Rhynchium Spinola. Type species: Rhynchium smithii de Saussure 1855, by monotypy. Prorrhynchium de Saussure 1856: 8 (Table des Matières), 348 (Index) (incorrect spelling of Prorhynchium de Saussure). Pararhynchium de Saussure 1862: 182; Giordani Soika 1973b: 122; Giordani Soika 1986b: 77, 79; Giordani Soika 1986c: 141 (incorrect spelling of Pararrhynchium de Saussure). Parrhynchium Dalla Torre 1894: 42 (subgenus of Rhynchium Spinola; incorrect spelling of Pararrhynchium de Saussure) [erroneously gives de Saussure 1862, as the first reference]. Lissodynerus Giordani Soika 1993b: 135, genus; reference to Lissodynerus Giordani Soika 1973, and Trichodynerus Giordani Soika & Kojima 1988. NEW SYNONYMY. Type species: Odynerus septemfasciatus Smith 1857, by original designation. Note: Redescribed as a “new” genus by Giordani Soika 1994: 301. Lissodynerus Giordani Soika 1973b: 119, used as generic name for Odynerus septemfasciatus var. feanus Giordani Soika 1941. Unavailable under Article 13.1.1 of the Code. NEW SYNONYMY. Trichodynerus Giordani Soika & Kojima 1988: 178, used as a generic name in the combination Trichodynerus agilis cursor Giordani Soika & Kojima 1988. Unavailable under Article 13.1.1 of the Code. NEW SYNONYMY. Taxonomy: van der Vecht 1963a: 94 (synonymy).— Giordani Soika 1994: 302–305 (key to Lissodynerus species).— Kim and Yamane, 2007: 64 (Pararrhynchium cat.).— Kumar et al. 2015: 7667 (Lissodynerus checklist). Distribution: Primarily Oriental Region, with a few species in Australia and the Palearctic. Ethology: No reports on the Australian species. Elsewhere species have been reported to nest in reeds or bamboo, and both mass and progressive provisioning are known.

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 pages 49-50, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4919.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4473370