Rhynchalastor is a moderately large afrotropical genus of potter wasps with 25 species currently known. Some authorities expand the genus to include species otherwise classified under related genera such as Stenodynerus
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Vespidae |
| Subfamily: | Eumeninae |
| Genus: | Rhynchalastor Meade-Waldo, 1910[1] |
| Type species | |
| Rhynchalastor fuscipennis Meade-Waldo, 1910[1]
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Species edit
Some of the Afrotropical species classified under Rhynchalastor are listed below:[2]
- Rhynchalastor auratipennis (Giordani Soika, 1934)
- Rhynchalastor auratus (Fabricius, 1787)
- Rhynchalastor baidoensis (Giordani Soika, 1944)
- Rhynchalastor bairstowi (Gribodo, 1892)
- Rhynchalastor bensoni (Giordani Soika, 1934)
- Rhynchalastor captiosus (Giordani Soika, 1989)
- Rhynchalastor carinatus (Gusenleitner, 2006)
- Rhynchalastor caudalis (Giordani Soika, 1934)
- Rhynchalastor corvus (Meade-Waldo, 1915)
- Rhynchalastor ferruginatus (Bequaert, 1918)
- Rhynchalastor flavofasciatellus (Giordani Soika, 1940)
- Rhynchalastor flavofasciatus (Gusenleitner, 2006)
- Rhynchalastor flavotorquatus (Giordani Soika, 1940)
- Rhynchalastor fuscipennis (Meade-Waldo, 1910)
- Rhynchalastor histrionimimus (Bequaert, 1918)
- Rhynchalastor imitator (Giordani Soika, 1983)
- Rhynchalastor indotatus (Giordani Soika, 1934)
- Rhynchalastor kolensis (Giordani Soika, 1934)
- Rhynchalastor luteatus(Gusenleitner, 2006)
- Rhynchalastor lutra (Giordani Soika, 1934)
- Rhynchalastor miserrimus (Giordani Soika, 1934)
- Rhynchalastor occidentalis (Giordani Soika, 1989)
- Rhynchalastor politiclypeus (von Schulthess, 1914)
- Rhynchalastor rhizophorarum (Bequaert, 1918)
- Rhynchalastor sorex (Gusenleitner, 2006)
- Rhynchalastor xanthosoma (Schletterer, 1891)
References edit
- ^ a b James Michael Carpenter (1986). "A Synonymic Generic Checklist of the Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)". Psyche: A Journal of Entomology. 93 (1–2): 61–90. doi:10.1155/1986/12489.
- ^ Simon van Noort (2017). "Eumeninae Classification and checklist of Afrotropical Potter wasps". WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the Afrotropical region. Iziko Museums of South Africa. Retrieved 28 April 2017.