Leptochilus (wasp)
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| Leptochilus | |
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| Leptochilus acolhuus (Saussure) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Vespidae |
| Subfamily: | Eumeninae |
| Genus: | Leptochilus Saussure, 1853[1] |
| Type species | |
| Pterochilus mauritanicus Lepeletier, 1841[1] | |
| Subgenera | |
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| Diversity | |
| at least 210 species | |
Leptochilus is a large, mostly Holarctic genus of small sized potter wasps. The genus reaches its largest diversity in the Palearctic where there are more than 135 species belonging to 5 subgenera.[2] However the division of The division of Leptochilus into subgenera can not be fully supported and the status of some of them is dubious.[3]