Delta (wasp)

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Delta
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Delta unguiculatum
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
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. [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 .

Species

The following are species of the genus Delta: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

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): zootaxa.4919.1.1. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4919.1.1. PMID   33756686. S2CID   232337462.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: article number as page number (link)
  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): zootaxa.4784.1.1. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4784.1.1. PMID   33056505. S2CID   219756230.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: article number as page number (link)
  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.
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