Synagris
Genus of wasps
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Synagris is an Afrotropical genus of large potter wasps. Several Synagris wasps are strongly sexually dimorphic and males bear notable morphological secondary sexual traits including metasomal lamellar or angular protruding structures and hornlike or tusklike mandibular and/or clypeal projections.
| Synagris | |
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| Male Synagris sp. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Vespidae |
| Subfamily: | Eumeninae |
| Genus: | Synagris Latreille, 1802[1] |
| Type species | |
| Synagris cornuta | |
The few species of Synagris with known biology are also notable for guarding their nests and even attending and feeding their larvae during their development (progressive provisioning), a primitively social behavior unusual among eumenines, which normally practice mass provisioning.
There are 3 subgenera and 24 species currently recognized, with many species formerly in the genus now removed to the genera Pseudagris and Rhynchagris.[2]
Species
Subgenus Hypagris de Saussure, 1855
- Synagris abyssinica Guerin, 1848
- Synagris aestuans (Fabricius, 1781)
- Synagris analis Saussure, 1856
- Synagris biplagiata Gusenleitner, 2005
- Synagris calida (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Synagris crassipes Kohl, 1894
- Synagris elephas Andre, 1895
- Synagris fasciata Mocsary, 1903
- Synagris kohli Maidl, 1914
- Synagris maxillosa Saussure, 1863
- Synagris mirabilis Guerin, 1848
- Synagris negusi Buysson, 1906
- Synagris rubescens Giordani Soika, 1989
- Synagris spiniventris (Illiger, 1802)
- Synagris spinosuscula Saussure, 1852
- Synagris stridens Giordani Soika, 1987
Subgenus Paragris de Saussure, 1855
- Synagris huberti de Saussure, 1855
- Synagris ornatissima Maidl, 1914
- Synagris rufopicta Tullgren, 1904
Subgenus Synagris Latreille, 1802