Delta higletti rendalli

Delta higletti rendalli (Bingham)

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Vespoidea; Family: Vespidae; Subfamily: Eumeninae; Genus: Delta)

Eumenes rendalli Bingham, 1902: 220. Holotype: Female Type Locality: Mangochi, Malawi. The male of Eumenes rendalli Bingham, 1902 belongs to Delta concinnum (de SAUSSURE 1855).

Eumenes rendalli n.sp.: BINGHAM 1902: 220 (Malawi, South Africa).

Eumenes rendalli BINGHAM: von DALLA TORRE 1904: 24.

Eumenes rendalli BINGHAM: von SCHULTHESS RECHBERG 1910: 17.

Eumenes rendalli BINGHAM: BEQUAERT 1918: 283.

Eumenes campaniformis var. rendalli BINGHAM: BEQUAERT 1926: 541 (key), 551 (Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi, South Africa, Zimbabwe).

Eumenes campaniformis var. rendalli BINGHAM: BEQUAERT 1928: 168 (Malawi).

Eumenes campaniformis var. rendalli BINGHAM: SALT & BEQUAERT 1929: 252 (Democratic Republic of Congo).

Eumenes campaniformis var. rendalli BINGHAM: GIORDANI SOIKA 1934a: 228.

Delta campaniformis var. rendalli (BINGHAM): GIORDANI SOIKA 1961a: 243.

Delta higletti rendalli (BINGHAM): GUSENLEITNER 1992: 679 (Ivory Coast).

Eumenes caffer var. rendalli (DE SAUSSURE): BEQUAERT 1918: 71 (key), 72 (Democratic Republic of Congo).

Distribution	Democratic Republic of Congo, Ivory Coast, Malawi, South Africa, Zimbabwe. Introduced into the Nearctic and Neotropical regions.
Biology
References	Bequaert J., 1918. A Revision of the Vespidae of the Belgian Congo Based on the Collection of the American Museum Congo Expedition, With A List of Ethiopian Diplopterous Wasps. Bulletin A. M. N. H, Vol. 39: 2-384. Bequaert, J. 1926. The genus Eumenes Latreille, in South Africa, with a revision of the Ethiopian species (Hymenoptera.) Annals of the South African Museum 23: 483–577. Carpenter, J.M., J. Gusenleitner & M. Madl. 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. Linzer Biologische Beiträge 42 (1): 95-315.
Credits	Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa)

Distribution

Democratic Republic of Congo, Ivory Coast, Malawi, South Africa, Zimbabwe. Introduced into the Nearctic and Neotropical regions.

Biology

References

Credits

Democratic Republic of Congo, Ivory Coast, Malawi, South Africa, Zimbabwe.
Introduced into the Nearctic and Neotropical regions.