Delta is an Old World genus of potter wasps with species predominantly distributed through tropical Africa and Asia.[1] Some species are present in the Palearctic region, and a few have been introduced in the Nearctic and Neotropical regions.[2] The members of this genus have a long metasomal petiole, like members of the genera Eumenes and Zeta.
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| Delta unguiculatum | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Vespidae |
| Subfamily: | Eumeninae |
| Genus: | Delta de Saussure, 1855 |
Species
editThe 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
edit- ^ 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.