Genus Eumenes Latreille 1802
Eumenes Latreille 1802: 360, as genus. Type species: " Eumenes coarctata Fab. " [= Ve s p a coarctata Linnaeus 1758], by subsequent designation of Latreille (1810: 438).
Alpha de Saussure 1855: 128, 137, name for division I of genus Eumenes Latreille 1802 in de Saussure 1852 (invalid homonym of Alpha de Saussure 1854). Type species: Vespa coarctata Linnaeus 1758, by subsequent designation of Bequaert (1926: 485).
Eumenidion von Schulthess 1913: 2, as subgenus of Eumenes Latreille 1802 . Type species: " Eumenes coarctatus L." [= Ve s p a coarctata Linnaeus 1758], by original designation.