Review of potter wasps with a petiolate metasoma excluding so-called " Zethinae " (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae) in the Lesser Sunda Islands of the Indonesian Archipelago
Author
Nugroho, Hari
Author
Kojima, Jun-Ichi
Author
Ubaidillah, Rosichon
text
Zootaxa
2013
3608
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1
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3608.1.1
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1175-5326
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Genus
Delta
de Saussure 1855
Delta
de Saussure 1855: 130, 132, 143, name for divisions II and III of genus
Eumenes
Latreille
1802
in de Saussure 1852: 44, 60; raised to the generic rank by Giordani Soika (1961).
Type
species:
Ve s p a maxillosa
De Geer 1775 [=
Vespa emarginata
Linnaeus, 1758
], by subsequent designation of Bequaert 1925: 137 [erroneously as
Sphex maxillosus
De Geer
, correctly in Bequaert 1926: 487].
Erinys
Zirngiebl 1953: 173
(as subgenus of
Eumenes
Latreille 1802
), nom. praeocc., nec
Erinys
Rye 1876
(
Coleoptera
:
Staphylinidae
).
Type
species:
Ve s p a unguiculata
Villers 1789, by monotypy.
We tentatively adopt in this paper six species of genus
Delta
which are recorded from the Lesser Sunda Islands (Carpenter, pers. comm.; Nugroho
et al
. 2012). However, the generic affilliations of
D. eremnum
,
D. sciarum
and
D. wieneckei
, are yet arguable. That is, van der Vecht (1959) grouped
D. sciarum
and
D. wieneckei
in the "
Eumenes curvatus
" (=
Phimenes curvatus
) group, which is characterized by the long and thin digitus of the male volsella, and
D. eremnum
is very similar to
D. sciarum
.