Delta esuriens Fabricius 1787

Main Authors: Siddiqui, Junaid Ali, Bodlah, Imran, Carpenter, James M., Naeem, Muhammad, Ahmad, Munir, Bodlah, Muhammad Adnan
Format: info publication-taxonomictreatment Journal
Terbitan: , 2015
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Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/6095171
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  • Delta esuriens (Fabricius, 1787) (Figs 17 a–b) Vespa esuriens Fabricius, 1787: 293, “ India ” (København). Vespa pediculata Olivier 1792: 671, “Indes orientales” (type depository unknown). Eumenes boscii de Saussure 1855: 132 (manuscript name, as a synonym of E. esuriens). Material examined: Attock, 26.v. 12, 1♂, 27.ix. 12, 4♂, 29.ix. 12, 2♂, 30.ix. 12, 2♂; Rawalpindi, 02.ix. 12, 1♀, 12.ix. 12, 4♂; Islamabad, 19.ix. 12, 1♀, 14.x. 12, 2♂; Chakwal, 12.ix. 12, 1♂. Distribution. Sri Lanka, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Pakistan, India, Indonesia, Myanmar, Iraq (Srinivasan & Kumar 2010). Comments. Collected specimens were compared with the published description of Delta esuriens Fabricius given by Bodlah et al. (2012). This species is distinguished by the apical yellow band on the petiole and thorax variegated with black and red color (Figs 17 a–b). It is reported for the first time from Chakwal, Punjab.
  • Published as part of Siddiqui, Junaid Ali, Bodlah, Imran, Carpenter, James M., Naeem, Muhammad, Ahmad, Munir & Bodlah, Muhammad Adnan, 2015, Vespidae (Hymenoptera) of the Pothwar region of Punjab, Pakistan, pp. 501-524 in Zootaxa 3914 (5) on page 507, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3914.5.1, http://zenodo.org/record/241739