Genus Eumenes Latreille, 1802 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 (invalid homonym of Alpha de Saussure, 1854). Type species: Vespa coarctata Linnaeus, 1758, by subsequent designation of Bequaert, 1926: 485. Eumenis Kriechbaumer, 1879: 57 (unjustified emendation of Eumenes Latreille). Eumemes [!] Fox, 1899: 439 (incorrect spelling of Eumenes Latreille). Eumes [!] Bertoni, 1910: 36 (incorrect spelling of Eumenes Latreille). Eumenidion von Schulthess, 1913: 2, subgenus of Eumenes Latreille. Type species: “ Eumenes coarctatus L.” [= Vespa coarctata Linnaeus, 1758], by original designation. Eumenidium [!] Sharp, 1914: 275 (incorrect spelling of Eumenidion von Schulthess). Diagnosis. MeSepiSternUm withoUt epicnemial carina; apical lamella of T2 not concaVe medially; pronotUm withoUt pretegUlar carina; tegUla Short, conVex and not eqUalling parategUla poSteriorly; propodeUm withoUt foVea or dentiform projectionS; axillary foSSa oVal, broader than long; metanotUm not bidentate; propodeal ValVUla Short, roUnded; SUbmarginal carina not projecting; Second SUbmarginal cell acUte baSally; metaSoma petiolate; midtibia with one SpUr. Distribution. AUStralian, Ethiopian, Nearctic, Neotropical, Oriental and Palaearctic regionS.

Published as part of Sureshan, Pavittu M., 2017, A taxonomic review of the Indian species of the genus Eumenes Latreille (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae), pp. 469-498 in Zootaxa 4317 (3) on page 470, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4317.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/884738