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Delta pulcherrimum pulcherrimum (von Schulthess Rechberg)

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

Eumenes maxillosus pulcherrimus von Schulthess Rechberg, 1910: 18. Syntype in Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town (SAMC).  Type Locality: Ost-Afrika vom Aequator bis Natal, South Africa.

Eumenes maxillosus var. pulcherrimus (von SCHULTHESS RECHBERG): BEQUAERT, 1918: 59 (key), 63 (fig. 49: map), 279 (cat.).

Eumenes maxillosus var. pulcherrimus (von SCHULTHESS RECHBERG): SCHOUTEDEN, 1919: 174 (Democratic Republic of Congo).

Eumenes (Delta) campaniformis (?) var. pulcherrimus von SCHULTHESS RECHBERG: BEQUAERT, 1926: 541 (key), 549 (South Africa).

Eumenes (Delta) maxillosus var. pulcherrimus von SCHULTHESS RECHBERG: BEQUAERT, 1928: 168.

Delta pulcherrimum pulcherimum (von SCHULTHESS RECHBERG): GIORDANI SOIKA 1982a: 209 (South Africa, Tanzania).

Delta higletti (MEADE-WALDO): GIORDANI SOIKA, 1961: 442 (South Africa).

Eumenes janseii CAMERON, 1910: 157 (South Africa).

Eumenes janseii CAMERON: BEQUAERT, 1918: 276 (syn. of Eumenes lepeletierii lepeletierii).

Eumenes janseii CAMERON: BEQUAERT, 1926: 549 (syn.).
 

Syntype of Eumenes maxillosus pulcherrimus von Schulthess Rechberg, 1910 (SAMC).

Distribution

Democratic Republic of Congo, South Africa, Tanzania.

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)

Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2025. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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