Delta dimidiatipenne
Description
Delta dimidiatipenne (de Saussure, 1852)
(Figs 18 a–b)
Eumenes dimidiatipennis de Saussure 1852: 51, ♀, ♂, “Djidda (Arabie), les Indes Orientales, l’Egypte” (Paris).
Eumenes transcaspicus Morawitz 1895: 414, ♀, ♂, “Transcaspia: Kasandshik; Pul-i-chatun” [Turkmenistan](? St. Petersburg).
Material examined. Rawalpindi, 18.ix.11, 1♂, 13.ix.12, 1♀, Attock, 20.ix.12, 1♀, 1♂; Chakwal, 12.ix.12, 1♀, 1♂; Murree, 24.ix.12, 2♀; Jhelum, 25.ix.12, 2♀, 1♂.
Distribution. Iran, India, Yemen, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Syria, Algeria, Central Africa, Pakistan, Egypt, South Africa, Arabia, Central Sahara, Somalia, Palestine Palestine, Madagascar and Palestine (Srinivasan & Kumar 2010).
Comments. Collected specimens were compared with the published description of Delta dimidiatipenne de Saussure given by Bodlah et al. (2012). This species is distinguished on the basis of the second metasomal segment at posterior part and succeeding metasomal segments black (Fig. 18 a). The lower half of the frons and clypeus are red. This species is reported for the first time from Murree, Punjab.
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Family
- Eumenidae
- Genus
- Delta
- Species
- dimidiatipenne
- Taxon rank
- species
References
- Saussure, H. de (1852 - 1858) Etudes sur la Famille des Vespides. Masson, Paris, and J. Cherbuliez, Geneve, 896 pp.
- Morawitz, F. (1895) Materialien zu einer Vespidenfauna des Russischen Reiches. Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae, 29, 407 - 493.
- Srinivasan, G. & Kumar, P. G. (2010) New records of potter wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae) from Arunachal Pradesh, India: five genera and ten species. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2 (12), 1313 - 1322. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.11609 / JoTT. o 2468.1313 - 22
- Bodlah, I., Naeem, M., Khan, M. R., Bodlah, M. A. & Akhter, T. (2012) Genus Delta de Saussure (Hymenoptera: Eumininae: Vespidae) from Punjab Province of Pakistan. Pakistan Journal of Zoology, 44 (3), 759 - 764.