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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, like Euodynerus, Acarodynerus, Stenodynerus, Parodontodynerus and Incodynerus.
Usage examples of "odynerus".
Eumenes and the Odynerus, cousins of the Cerceris, which sting their prey in places as yet ill determined, not indeed so many isolated attempts, but an incomplete process of invention, an attempt at procedures still in the fact of formation: in a word, the birth of that marvellous instinct which ends in the transcendent art of the Sphex and the Ammophila.
The Odynerus has for its instinctive mission to arrest the excessive multiplication of a lucerne weevil, no less than twenty-four of whose grubs are necessary to rear the offspring of the brigand, and nearly sixty gadflies are sacrificed to the growth of a single Bembex.