Delta conoideum
- 1. Department of Bioscience, Rani Durgavati Viswa Vidyalaya, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh - 482001, India; khushialtaf 1986 @ gmail. com
- 2. Western Ghat Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Kozhikode, Kerala - 673006, India; kpgiris @ gmail. com
- 3. Directorate of Research Services, Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh - 482004, India; moni _ thomas @ rediffmail. com
- 4. Department of Zoology, Government O. F. K. College, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh - 482005, India; ritabhandari 06 @ yahoo. co. in
Description
14. Delta conoideum (Gmelin, 1790)
1787. Vespa conica Fabricius, 293. Syntype: Female. China (BMNH).
2006. Delta conoideum; Gusenleitner, 694.
Diagnosis: Female: Head above antenna and mesosoma closely and lightly punctured; clypeus pyriform, its apex truncate; metasoma smooth and shining with surface minutely aciculate.
Colour Description: Head yellow except mandibles and antenna reddish, broad transverse band across apex between tops of eyes black, black mark extends behind vertex to occiput; thorax dark red with black patches on mesoscutum, metapleuron and median area of propodeum, propleuron entirely black; legs pale reddish; gaster dark red with base of T2 and short transverse medially interrupted band on its middle above black; forewing basally flavohyaline and apically fusco-hyaline, with slight purplish reflection.
Size (H+M+T1+T2): 23-26 mm.
Male: Last antennal article hooked apically, hook long, curved and pointed, in curved position it almost reaching apex of 9 th antennal article; S7 with deep median longitudinal groove; Male comparatively smaller and slighter than female. Other characters almost same as that of female.
Size (H+M+T1+T2): 17 mm.
Material examined: INDIA: Madhya Pradesh, Jabalpur district, Dumna Nature Park, 2♀ & 1♂, 9.ii.2015, Coll. Altaf Hussain Sheikh.
Distribution: India: Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Diu, Gujarat, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Odisha, Pondicherry, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal. Elsewhere: Arabia, China, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand.
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- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.26515/rzsi/v117/i3/2017/119330 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/10987693 (URL)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/47655A77FF98FFCBFFD7FFE15E35FFA6 (URL)
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- https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/BB5C220FFF9FFFCCFF52FBF35AD5FCDF (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/225694407 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- BMNH
- Event date
- 2015-02-09
- Family
- Vespidae
- Genus
- Delta
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Gmelin
- Species
- conoideum
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- syntype
- Verbatim event date
- 2015-02-09
- Taxonomic concept label
- Delta conoideum (Gmelin, 1790) sec. Sheikh, Kumar, Thomas & Bhandari, 2017