Zetheumenidion
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''Zetheumenidion'' is a small
afrotropical The Afrotropical realm is one of Earth's eight biogeographic realms. It includes Africa south of the Sahara Desert, the majority of the Arabian Peninsula, the island of Madagascar, southern Iran and extreme southwestern Pakistan, and the island ...
genus of
potter wasp Potter wasps (or mason wasps), the Eumeninae, are a cosmopolitan wasp group presently treated as a subfamily of Vespidae, but sometimes recognized in the past as a separate family, Eumenidae. Recognition Most eumenine species are black or brown, ...
s currently containing 5 species, one of them with two recognized subspecies. The species are distributed through southern and eastern
Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area ...
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References

* Carpenter, J.M., J. Gusenleitner & M. Madl. 2010. A Catalogue of the Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) of the Ethiopian Region excluding Malagasy Subregion. Part II: Genera ''Delta'' de Saussure 1885 to ''Zethus'' Fabricius 1804 and Species Incertae Sedis. Linzer Biologische Beiträge 42 (1) : 95 - 315. Hymenoptera genera Potter wasps {{potter-wasp-stub