Taxonomic revision and cladistic analysis of genres Pachymenes de Saussure and Santamanes Giordani Soika (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Eumeninae)

• Grant number: 10/13169-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: March 01, 2011
• End date: February 28, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Zoology - Taxonomy of Recent Groups
• Principal Investigator: Fernando Barbosa Noll
• Grantee: Yuri Campanholo Grandinete
• Host Institution: Instituto de Biociências, Letras e Ciências Exatas (IBILCE). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de São José do Rio Preto. São José do Rio Preto , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Eumeninae represent the largest subfamily of Vespidae with more than 3000 species and 200 genres described. Historically, the generic classification has been treated as "chaotic" due to the enormous morphological diversity presented by their representatives. This project aims to revise taxonomically genres Pachymenes de Saussure and Santamenes Giordani Soika, including descriptions of new taxa that may get discovered, provide maps of distribution and a catalogue of species of the genera. In addition, phylogenetic relations will be investigated within groups throught cladystics analyses, employing morphological characters in order to prove whether or not the monophyletism of two genres.

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

GRANDINETE, YURI C.; HERMES, MARCEL G.; NOLL, FERNANDO B.. Systematics and phylogeny of the Neotropical Pachymenes de Saussure and Santamenes Giordani Soika (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Eumeninae). Systematic Entomology, v. 40, n. 2, p. 365-384, APR 2015. (10/13169-5)