Catalogue of the Australian Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) Author Carpenter, James M. Author Brown, Graham R. 0000-0002-4101-3823 thynnini@outlook.com text Zootaxa 2021 2021-01-26 4919 1 1 68 https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4919.1.1 journal article 8654 10.11646/zootaxa.4919.1.1 c95b424f-11b6-4d97-a30f-b6b36dd1b8ed 1175-5326 4473370 8537A0E1-5F78-47B3-916B-D4B988DC86E1 Genus Knemodynerus Blüthgen Knemodynerus Blüthgen 1940: 43 , subgenus of “ Euodynerus Blüthgen ” [= Euodynerus Dalla Torre ]. Type species: Odynerus excellens Pérez 1907 , by original designation. Trachyodynerus Giordani Soika 1989: 19 , 60, genus. Type species: Trachyodynerus dancaliensis Giordani Soika 1989 , by original designation. Taxonomy : Carpenter 1986: 73 (genus).— Giordani Soika 1994: 258–259 (key to Oriental species).— Gusenleitner 2012: 523 , 529 (syn.: Trachyodynerus Giordani Soika ). Distribution : Widespread in the Old World. Ethology : No reports on the Australian species. Elsewhere one species has been reported to nest in reeds.