Odynerus is a primarily Holarctic genus of potter wasps.
The name of this genus has been widely used as a root to construct many other genus-level names for potter wasps with non-petiolated metasoma, such as Euodynerus, Acarodynerus, Stenodynerus, Parodontodynerus and Incodynerus.
Species A partial species list of the hundreds of species classified under Odynerus is set out below:
Odynerus acuticarinatus (Cameron, 1909) Odynerus acutocarinatus Cameron, 1909 Odynerus areatus Fox, 1902 Odynerus dorsonotatus Fox, 1902 Odynerus eburneofasciatus Dusmet, 1903 Odynerus ezechiae Schulthess, 1923 Odynerus herbertii Fox, 1902 Odynerus jeromensis Cameron, 1909 Odynerus longicornus Fox, 1902 Odynerus melanocephalus (Gmeling, 1790) Odynerus pacator Giordani Soika, 1960 Odynerus pallidus Zavattari, 1912 Odynerus rufimaculus Fox, 1902 Odynerus simillimus Morawitz, 1867 Odynerus simplex Bingham, 1902 Odynerus spinipes (Linnaeus, 1758) Odynerus striatus (Fox, 1902) Odynerus zhelochovtzewi Kostylev, 1929 FOX, W. J. 1902. Contributions to a knowledge of the Hymenoptera of Brazil, Nº. 8.- Eumenidae, continued (Genus Odynerus). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 1902:44-69.
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