Genus of wasps
Delta Old World genus of potter wasps with species predominantly distributed through tropical Africa and Asia .[ 1] Palearctic region, and a few have been introduced in the Nearctic and Neotropical regions.[ 2] metasomal petiole , like members of the genera Eumenes Zeta
Species
The following are species of the genus Delta :[ 1] [ 2] [ 3] [ 4] [ 5] [ 6]
Delta alluaudi (Pérez, 1895) Delta anomalum (Zavattari, 1909) Delta asina (de Saussure, 1852)
D. a. asina (de Saussure, 1852) D. a. mixtum (Giordani Soika, 1944) Delta bicinctum (de Saussure, 1852) Delta bonellii (Giordani Soika, 1944) Delta caffra (Linnaeus, 1767) Delta campaniforme (Fabricius, 1775)
D. c. assatum (Giordani Soika, 1934) D. c. campaniforme (Fabricius, 1775) D. c. chloroticum Giordani Soika, 1979 D. c. pseudodyscherum (Bequaert, 1925) D. c. pseudopulcherrimum Giordani Soika, 1968 D. c. rhodesiense Bequaert, 1926 D. c. tessmanni von Schulthess Rechberg, 1910 Delta concinnum (de Saussure, 1855) Delta conoideum (Gmelin, 1790) Delta dimidiatipenne (Saussure, 1852) Delta emarginatum (Linnaeus, 1758) Delta esuriens (Fabricius, 1787)
Delta esuriens esuriens (Fabricius, 1787) Delta esuriens gracile (Saussure, 1852) Delta fenestrale (Saussure, 1852) Delta guerini (de Saussure, 1852) Delta higletti (Meade-Waldo, 1910)
D. h. higletti (Meade-Waldo, 1910) D. h. rendalli (Bingham, 1902) Delta hottentotta (de Saussure, 1852)
D. h. berlandi (Giordani Soika, 1934) D. h. hottentottum (de Saussure, 1852) D. h. nigriventre Giordani Soika, 1989 D. h. tibesticum (Giordani Soika, 19854) D. h. unicoloripenne Giordani Soika, 1989 Delta inexpectatum Giordani Soika, 1982 Delta insulare (Smith, 1857) Delta latreillei (de Saussure, 1852) Delta lene (Bingham, 1897) Delta lepeleterii (de Saussure, 1852)
D. l. formosum (de Saussure, 1852) D. l. lepeleterii (de Saussure, 1852) D. l. meruense (Cameron, 1910) D. l. pilosellum Giordani Soika, 1982 Delta magnum van der Vecht, 1981 Delta nigriculum Giordani Soika 1986 Delta nigritarse (Meade-Waldo, 1910) Delta occidentale Giordani Soika, 1975 Delta paraconicum Giordani Soika, 1972 Delta philantes (de Saussure, 1852) Delta phthisicum (Gerstäcker, 1857) Delta pseudodimidiatipenne (Giordani Soika, 1944) Delta pulcherrimum (von Schulthess Rechberg, 1910)
D. p. nigrithorax Giordani Soika, 1982 D. p. pulcherrimum (von Schulthess Rechberg, 1910) Delta pyriforme (Fabricius, 1775)
D. p. circinale (Fabricius, 1804) D. p. nigrocinctum Giordani Soika, 1993 D. p. philippinense (Bequaert, 1928) D. p. pyriforme (Fabricius, 1775) Delta regina (de Saussure, 1852) Delta sakalavus (de Saussure, 1900) Delta sciarum (van der Vecht, 1959) Delta subfenestrale (Giordani Soika, 1939) Delta tropicale (de Saussure, 1852) Delta unguiculatum (Villers, 1789) Delta versicolor van der Vecht, 1981 Delta viatrix (Nurse, 1903) Delta xanthura (de Saussure, 1852)
References
^ a b Carpenter, James M.; Madl, Michael (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" (PDF) . Linzer biologische Beiträge . 42 (1): 95– 315. Retrieved 2022-06-16 . ^ a b Carpenter, James M.; Brown, Graham R. (2021). "Catalogue of the Australian Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)". Zootaxa . 4919 (1): 1–68. doi :10.11646/zootaxa.4919.1.1 . PMID 33756686 . S2CID 232337462 . ^ Carpenter, James M.; Madl, Michael (2009). "A Catalogue of the Vespidae of the Malagasy Subregion (Insecta, Hymenoptera)" . Linzer biologische Beiträge . 41 (2): 1871– 1935. Retrieved 2022-06-16 . ^ Pannure, Arati; Belavadi, Vasuki V.; Carpenter, James M. (2016). "Taxonomic studies on potter wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae) of south India". Zootaxa . 4171 (1): 1– 50. doi :10.11646/zootaxa.4171.1.1 . PMID 27701247 . ^ Gawas, Sandesh M.; Kumar, Girish; Pannure, Arati; Gupta, Ankita; Carpenter, James M. (2020). "An annotated distributional checklist of Vespidae (Hymenoptera: Vespoidea) of India". Zootaxa . 4784 (1): zootaxa.4784.1.1. doi :10.11646/zootaxa.4784.1.1 . PMID 33056505 . S2CID 219756230 . ^ Nugroho, Hari; Kojima, Jun-Ichi; Ubaidillah, Rosichon (2013). "Review of potter wasps with a petiolate metasoma excluding so-called "Zethinae" (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae) in the Lesser Sunda Islands of the Indonesian Archipelago" . Zootaxa . 3608 (1): 1– 25. doi :10.11646/zootaxa.3608.1.1 PMID 24614445 .
