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Delta
asina asina
(de
Saussure, 1852)
Delta
asina mixtum
(Giordani
Soika, 1944) |
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|
Delta bonellii
Giordani
Soika, 1973 |
|
 |
Delta caffrum
(Linné, 1767) |
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Delta campaniforme
pseudodyscherum
Delta
campaniforme pseudopulcherrimum
Giordani Soika, 1968
Delta
campaniforme rhodesiense
Bequaert, 1926
Delta
campaniforme tessmanni
(von Schulthess,
Rechberg, 1910)
Delta concinnum
(de
Saussure, 1855)
Delta
dimidiatipenne
(de
Saussure, 1852)
Delta emarginatum
(Linnaeus,
1758)
Delta esuriens esuriens (Yemen)
Delta esuriens
gracile
(de Saussure,
1852)
Delta fenestrale
(de
Saussure, 1852)
Delta higletti
higletti (Meade-Waldo, 1910)
Delta higletti
rendalli
(Bingham, 1902)
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 |
Delta hottentotum
hottentotum
(de Saussure, 1852)
|
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Delta
hottentottum berlandi
(Giordani Soika, 1934)
Delta hottentottum elegans
(Saussure)
Delta
hottentotum nigriventre
Giordani Soika, 1989
Delta
hottentottum tibesticum
(Giordani
Soika, 1954)
Delta
hottentottum unicoloripenne
Giordani Soika, 1989
Delta
inexspectatum
Giordani
Soika, 1982
|
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 |
Delta
lepeletierii lepeletierii
(de
Saussure, 1852) |
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|
Delta
lepeletierii formosum
(de Saussure,
1852)
Delta
lepeletierii meruense
(Cameron, 1910)
Delta
lepeletierii pilosellum
Giordani Soika, 1982
Delta occidentale
Giordani
Soika, 1975
Delta phthisicum
(Gerstäcker, 1857)
Delta
pseudodimidiatipenne
(Giordani Soika, 1944)
Delta pulcherrimum
pulcherrimum
(von Schulthess,
Rechberg, 1910)
Delta
pulcherrimum nigrithorax
Giordani Soika, 1982
Delta subfenestrale
(Giordani
Soika, 1939)
Delta tropicale
(de
Saussure, 1852) |
Distribution
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Worldwide.
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Biology |
Mud nest usually built on surfaces of rocks, walls or
branches and trunks of trees, either as a single pot or as a group of
cells covered by an outer envelope; prey are usually geometrid moth
caterpillars (Gess & Gess, 2014). |
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 of the American Museum
of Natural History 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. 1986. A Synonymic Generic Checklist of the
Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Psyche 93: 61-90.
Carpenter, J. M. & M.
Madl. 2009. A catalogue of the Vespidae of the Malagasy Subregion (Insecta,
Hymenoptera). Linzer Biologische Beiträge 41 (2): 1871-1935.
Carpenter, J.M., J.
Gusenleitner, & M. Madl. 2009. A catalogue of the Eumeninae (Hymenoptera:
Vespidae) of the Ethiopian Region excluding Malagasy Subregion. Part I:
Introduction, Key to Genera, Genera Aethiopicodynerus Gusenleitner, 1997
to Cyrtolabulus van der VECHT 1969. Linzer Biologische Beiträge 41
(1): 513-638.
Carpenter, J.M., J.
Gusenleitner, & M. Madl. 2010a. 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.
Carpenter, J.M., J.
Gusenleitner, & M. Madl. 2010b. A Catalogue of the Eumeninae
(Hymenoptera: Vespidae) of the Ethiopian Region excluding Malagasy Subregion.
Part III: Classification, Additions, Corrections and Index.
Linzer Biologische Beiträge 42 (1): 919-1004.
Gess, S.K. & Gess, F.W. 2014. Wasps and bees in southern Africa. SANBI
Biodiversity Series 24. South African National Biodiversity Institute,
Pretoria. 320 pp.
Goldblatt, P. & Manning, J.C. 2011. Systematics and
biology of the African genus Ferraria (Iridaceae: Irideae). Bothalia
41: 1–40.
Goldblatt, P. & Manning, J.C. 2012. Notes on Moraea
subg. Visciramosa (Iridoideae), including the new species Moraea
saldanhensis from the Atlantic coast of South Africa, recognition of M.
inconspicua subsp. namaquensis, and pollination biology in M.
rivulicola. Bothalia 42: 210-215.
Goldblatt, P., Bernhardt, P. & Manning, J.C. 2009.
Adaptive radiation of the putrid perianth: Ferraria (Iridaceae: Irideae)
and its unusual pollinators. Plant Systematics and Evolution 278: 53–65. |
Credits
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Photographs
© Peter Webb (Irene, Pretoria), or © Iziko Museums of South Africa.
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