Delta (wasp)

Delta
Delta unguiculatum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Vespidae
Subfamily: Eumeninae
Genus: Delta
de Saussure, 1855

Delta is an Old World genus of potter wasps with species predominantly distributed through tropical Africa and Asia. Some species are present in the Palearctic region, and a few have been introduced in the Nearctic and Neotropical regions. The members of this genus have a long metasomal petiole, like members of the genera Eumenes and Zeta.

Species

The following are species of the genus Delta:

References

  1. 1 2 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.
  2. 1 2 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.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ 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). doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4784.1.1. PMID 33056505. S2CID 219756230.
  6. ↑ 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.