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Alastor Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Vespoidea; Family: Vespidae; Subfamily: Eumeninae)

Alastor Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau, 1841. Type species: Alastor atropos Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau, 1841.

	Alastor (Alastor) aeger Giordani Soika, 1983 (Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe)
	Alastor (Alastorellus) angulatus Selis, 2025 (Madagascar)
	Alastor (Alastorellus) arnoldi von Schultheb, 1925 (South Africa, Zimbabwe) Alastor (Alastorellus) baidoensis Giordani Soika, 1983 (Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania) Alastor(Alastor) bilamellatus Giordani Soika, 1941 (South Africa) Alastor(Alastor) bispinosus Giordani Soika, 1983 (South Africa) Alastor (Alastorellus) braunsi Meade-Waldo, 1913 Alastor(Alastor) bucida de Saussure, 1853 (South Africa, Zimbabwe) Alastor (Alastorellus) carinulatus Giordani Soika, 1991 (Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe)
	Alastor (Alastorellus) curvatus Selis, 2025 (Madagascar)
	Alastor (Alastorellus) clypabnormis Gusenleitner, 2006 (Mozambique) Alastor (Alastor) concitatus Giordani Soika, 1934 (South Africa) Alastor(Alastorellus) cylindricus Giordani Soika, 1991 (Zimbabwe) Alastor(Alastorellus) facilis Giordani Soika, 1934 (South Africa) Alastor(Alastor) faustus faustus Giordani Soika, 1941 (South Africa) Alastor(Alastor) faustus gaudens Giordani Soika, 1991 (South Africa) Alastor (Alastor) gestroi Giordani Soika, 1934 (South Africa, Zimbabwe) Alastor(Alastor) globosus Giordani Soika, 1934 (South Africa) Alastor(Alastorellus) guichardi Giordani Soika, 1958 (Somalia) Alastor(Alastor) hirsutus Gusenleitner, 2007 (South Africa) Alastor(Alastor) incospicuus Giordani Soika, 1934 (South Africa) Alastor (Alastor) kochi Giordani Soika, 1983 (South Africa) Alastor (Alastorellus) madecassus Giordani Soika, 1991 Alastor(Alastorellus) mandibularis Giordani Soika, 1950 (Kenya, Lesotho, South Africa, Zimbabwe) Alastor(Alastorellus) melanogaster Gusenleitner, 2006 (Mozambique) Alastor(Alastor) muticoides Giordani Soika, 1941 (South Africa) Alastor(Alastor) muticus Giordani Soika, 1941 (South Africa) Alastor (Alastorellus) nigroflavus Giordani Soika, 1991 Alastor (Alastor) nitidus Gusenleitner, 2006 (South Africa) Alastor(Alastor) occidentalis Gusenleitner, 2006 (Niger) Alastor(Alastor) parallelus Gusenleitner, 2006 (South Africa) Alastor(Alastorellus) planicollis Gusenleitner, 2004 (Kenya) Alastor(Alastorellus) plicatus Giordani Soika, 1991 (Kenya, South Africa) Alastor (Alastor) possibilis Giordani Soika, 1934 (Namibia, South Africa) Alastor(Alastor) procax Giordani Soika, 1934 (Namibia, South Africa) Alastor(Alastor) promontorii Meade-Waldo, 1913 (Namibia, South Africa) Alastor(Alastor) pronotalis Giordani Soika, 1983 (South Africa) Alastor(Alastorellus) quadraticollis Giordani Soika, 1941 (Zimbabwe) Alastor(Alastor) ricae Giordani Soika, 1934 (Namibia, South Africa) Alastor(Alastor) rubescens Gusenleitner, 2006 (South Africa) Alastor (Alastorellus) schulthessianus Giordani Soika, 1934 (Namibia) Alastor(Alastorellus) simillimus Giordani Soika, 1983 (South Africa, Zimbabwe) Alastor (Alastorellus) stevensoni von Schultheb 1925 (Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, Zimbabwe) Alastor (Alastor) stroudiaformis Gusenleitner, 2006 (South Africa) Alastor(Alastor) submissusGiordani Soika, 1983 (South Africa) Alastor(Alastorellus) sulcifer Giordani Soika, 1934 (South Africa, Zimbabwe) Alastor (Alastor) turneri von Schulthess, 1925 (South Africa)
Distribution	Kenya, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe. Also Oriental and Palaearctic regions.
Biology
References	Bequaert J. 1918. A revision of the Vespidae of the Belgian Congo based on the collection of the American museum Congo expedition, with a list of Ethiopian diplopterous wasps. Bulletin of the American Musuem of Natural History 39: 2-384. Carpenter J. M. 1986. A synonymic generic checklist of the Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Psyche 93: 61-90. Carpenter, J. M. & M. Madl. 2009. A catalogue of the Vespidae of the Malagasy Subregion (Insecta, Hymenoptera). Linzer Biologische Beiträge 41 (2): 1871-1935. Carpenter, J.M., J. Gusenleitner & M. Madl. 2009. A catalogue of the Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) of the Ethiopian Region excluding Malagasy Subregion. Part I: Introduction, Key to Genera, Genera Aethiopicodynerus Gusenleitner 1997 to Cyrtolabulus van der VECHT 1969. Linzer Biologische Beiträge 41 (1): 513-638. Carpenter, J.M., J. Gusenleitner & M. Madl. 2010. A catalogue of the Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) of the Ethiopian Region excluding Malagasy Subregion. Part II: Genera Delta de Saussure 1885 to Zethus Fabricius 1804 and Species Incertae Sedis. Linzer Biologische Beiträge 42 (1): 95-315. Carpenter, J.M., J. Gusenleitner & M. Madl. 2010. A Catalogue of the Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) of the Ethiopian Region excluding Malagasy Subregion. Part III: Classification, Additions, Corrections and Index. Linzer Biologische Beiträge 42 (1): 919-1004.
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