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Delta concinnum (de Saussure)

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

Eumenes concinnus de Saussure, 1855: 144. Holotype in .  Type Locality: Sudan.

Eumenes rendalli Bingham,1902: 220 (Malawi).

Eumenes sanguinolenta Gerstaeker 1857: 463 (Mozambique).

Eumenes spilocera Cameron, 1910: 159 (South Africa).

Distribution

Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Guinea Bissau, Kenya, Malawi, Mali (?), Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Zimbabwe.

Biology

 

Reference

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

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