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Delta
lepeleterii formosum (de Saussure)
(Life:
Kingdom: Metazoa (animals);
Phylum: Arthropoda;
Class: Hexapoda; Order:
Hymenoptera; Superfamily:
Vespoidea; Family: Vespidae;
Subfamily: Eumeninae; Genus:
Delta)
Eumenes
formosa de Saussure, 1852.
Holotype:
Type Locality: "Congo".
Eumenes lepeletierii var. formosa de SAUSSURE: de SAUSSURE 1855: 130.
Eumenes formosa de SAUSSURE: de DALLA TORRE 1894: 24.
Eumenes formosa de SAUSSURE: von DALLA TORRE 1904: 22.
Eumenes (Delta) campaniformis var. formosus de SAUSSURE: BEQUAERT 1926: 541 (key), 546 (Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, South Africa, Zimbabwe).
Eumenes (Delta) campaniformis var. formosus de SAUSSURE: BEQUAERT 1928: 167 ("Congo").
Eumenes campaniformis var. formosa de SAUSSURE: GUIGLIA 1931: 159 (Eritrea).
Eumenes campaniformis var. formosa de SAUSSURE: GUIGLIA 1932: 120 (Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan).
Delta lepeleterii formosum (de SAUSSURE): GIORDANI SOIKA 1982a: 212 (Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe).
Eumenes lepeletieri de SAUSSURE: SMITH 1857: 27.
Eumenes lepeleterii var. lepeleterii de SAUSSURE: BEQUAERT 1918: 276.
Eumenes campaniformis var. lepeletierii de SAUSSURE: GIORDANI SOIKA 1934a: 226.
Eumenes caffer caffer (LINNAEUS): BEQUAERT 1918: 56 (key), 69 (descr.), 70 (figs 50-55), 71 (key), 72 (Democratic Republic of Congo). |
Distribution
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Botswana, "Congo", Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Namibia, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Zimbabwe. |
Biology |
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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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Photographs
© Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).
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