Scientific Name

Delta pyriforme pyriforme (Fabricius, 1775)

Taxonomic Placement

Hymenoptera: Vespoidea: Vespidae: Eumeninae: Eumenini: Delta

Synonyms/Original combination

Vespa pyriformis Fabricius, 1775: 371.
Vespa petiolata Fabricius, 1781: 467.
Sphex pyriformis; Christ, 1791: 312.
Sphex rubicunda Christ, 1791: 316, pl. 32 fig. 1.
Sphex thoracica Christ, 1791: 324, pl. 32 fig. 9.
Eumenes petiolata; Latreille, 1802: 361.
Eumenes pyriformis; Fabricius, 1804: 286.
Eumenes pomiformis var. piriformis [!]; Dalla Torre, 1894: 30.
Eumenes piriformis; Schulz, 1912: 88, 101.
Eumenes maxillosus var. petiolatus; Bequaert, 1918: 59 (key), 63, fig. 49 (map), 281.
Eumenes maxillosus var. pyriformis; Bequaert, 1926: 562, 564.
Eumenes pyriformispyriformis; Iwata, 1965: 105, pl.9 fig. 11.
Delta pyriformis; Giordani Soika, 1975: 393.
Delta pyriforme pyriforme; Gusenleitner, 1988b: 184.

Brief diagnosis

Female: Head wider than high. Clypeus longer than wide and truncated apically. Antenna with 12 articles. Mandibles longer than clypeus and distinctly cross each other. Gena narrower than eye in lateral view. Mesosoma with pretegular carina and mid tibia with 1 spur. Metasoma petiolated and with 6 mestasomal segments. Colour: Frons, clypeus, occiput, antennae and gena yellow. Mandibles reddish brown. Ocellar region black. Mesosoma dark red with yellow pronotum and basal half of mesoscutum. Wings yellow hyaline basally. T1 dark red with black basal band. T2 dark red in basal 1/3rd, black transeverse band in middle and apical ½ yellow. T2-T6 yellow.
Male: Same as that of female except, metasoma 7 segmented and antennae with 13 articles of which last article is hoked and touches the base of 10th article.

Images

Adult- dorsal view
Adult- lateral view
Adult- frontal view

Distribution

India: Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Goa, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Odisha, Puducherry, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Tripura, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal.
Elsewhere: Bhutan; Cambodia; China; Hawaii; Hong Kong; Indonesia; Laos; Malaysia; Moluccas; Myanmar; Nepal; New Guinea; Pakistan; Sri Lanka; Taiwan; Thailand; Vietnam.

Distribution within India

References

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