Genus Pareumenes de Saussure, 1855

Pareumenes de Saussure 1855: 133, division of genus Eumenes Latreille (4 species). Type species: Eumenes quadrispinosus de Saussure, 1855, by subsequent designation (Bequaert 1918: 271).

Diagnosis. Mandibles elongate, wider at base, distinctly cross each other. Clypeus as long as wide, deeply emarginate apically. Female with two cephalic foveae present (Fig. 5). Vertex not sloping behind ocelli. Mesosoma more or less flattened dorso-ventrally, distinctly longer than high (Fig. 14). Anterior face of pronotum smooth and shiny without medial pits or foveae. Pronotal carina present. Mesoscutum with deep notauli on anterior portion (Fig. 26). Epicnemial carina absent (Fig. 15). Pretegular carina well developed. Tegula narrow, longer than wide, emarginate posteriorly and reaches end of parategula (Fig. 26). Metanotum not dentate. Axillary fossa narrow (Fig. 26). Propodeum with no dorsal surface behind metanotum, sloping posteriorly. Median carina arises from fovea or longitudinal slit on anterior portion of propodeum. Propodeum sometimes dentate postero-laterally. Propodeal orifice wide dorsally. Submarginal carina not projected as pointed process above valvula (Fig. 42). Propodeal vuvlula not free from submarginal carina. Metasoma petiolate, gradually widening near apex sometimes with a longitudinal forrow apically. S1 more or less gradually widening from base to apex, rather regularly transversely striate. T1, T2 and T3 often lamellate apically. Mid tibia with one apical spur (Fig. 45). SMC2 basally acute. Prestigma longer than pterostigma (Fig. 56). ♂ antennae hooked. Body length usually more than 20 mm.

Distribution. Ethiopian, Oriental and Palearctic Regions.