Delta conoideum

Delta conoideum
Delta conoideum from south India
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Vespidae
Genus: Delta
Species:
D. conoideum
Binomial name
Delta conoideum
(Gmelin, 1790)
Synonyms
  • Vespa conica Fabricius, 1787 (Homonym)
  • Eumenes conica (Fabricius, 1787)

Delta conoideum, the mason wasp, is a species of potter wasp in the subfamily Eumeninae of the family Vespidae.

Distribution

This species can be found in India, Nepal, the Philippines, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Cambodia. Peptides in their venom have been studied by getting them to sting a block of agar.

References

  1. 1 2 3 GBIF Archived 2015-02-19 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ↑ Hingston, R. W. G. (1926). "The Mason wasp Eumenes conica, Part I. Architecture". Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 31: 241–247.
  3. ↑ A list of hymenoptera of Philippines Islands
  4. ↑ Bhagavathula, Naga Chaitanya; Kumar, Mukesh; Krishnappa, Chandrashekara (2016). "A simple non-invasive technique for venom milking from a solitary wasp Delta conoideum Gmelin (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)". Toxicon. 109: 4–6. doi:10.1016/j.toxicon.2015.10.023.