A Catalogue of the Pacific Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) Author Carpenter, James M. Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79 th Street, New York, text Zootaxa 2023 2023-07-12 5315 5 401 455 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5315.5.1 journal article 263436 10.11646/zootaxa.5315.5.1 33ce411d-af49-4183-963e-08469b8e0e6f 1175-5326 8142377 A0E917F4-958C-4804-BCDF-3D7722A236CA esuriens esuriens (Fabricius) Vespa esuriens Fabricius 1775: 393 , sex not stated—“ India ” (København).— Gmelin 1790: 2754 .—Olivier 1792 [1791]: 673.— Fabricius 1793: 280 .— Jurine 1807: 171 . Vespa pediculata Olivier 1792 [1791]: 671—“Indes orientales” ( type depository unknown).—de Saussure 1852: 56 (syn. of Eumenes esuriens (Fabricius)) .— Maindron 1882: 270 (syn. of Eumenes esuriens Fabricius ). Eumenes esuriens ; Fabricius 1804: 286 .—de Saussure 1852: 56, pl. XI fig. 2 (female, male; syn.: Vespa pediculata Olivier ; “Indes Orientales”, Persia , etc.); 1855: 131 ( E . gracilis , and perhaps urvillei , are varieties of this species which is distributed from Senegal to China and the Sunda Is.).— Smith 1857: 22 (cat.; syns.: Vespa pediculata Oliv. , Eumenes gracilis de Saussure and E . campaniformis de Saussure [sic!]).— Horne 1870: 166 , pl. 20, 6, 6a (ethology).— Smith 1871b: 371 (cat.) [in part only].— Walker 1871: 29 .— André 1884: 619 .— Gribodo 1884: 356 ( Burma ).— Bingham 1888: 187 ( Burma ); 1897: 342.— Dalla Torre 1894: 23 (cat.).— Rothney 1903: 106 ( escuriens [!]; India , very common).— Dalla Torre 1904: 22 (cat.).— Rudow 1904: 195 (nest; Java).— Morice & Szépligeti 1904: 3 .— Paiva 1907: 15 ( India ).— Wickwar 1908: 118 ( Ceylon ).— Maxwell-Lefroy & Howlett 1909 , Ind. Ins. Life: 211, fig. 117 (nest).— Dutt 1912: 229–231 (nest; India ).—du Buysson 1912: 80 ( Persia ).— Roubaud 1916: 60–61 (ethology).— Dover 1921: 386 ( India ).—Guiglia 1928: 494.— Dusmet 1930: 103 ( India ).— Yasumatsu 1935 , Annot. Zool. Jap. 15: 34 (Ishigaki Island), 35 (Iriomote Island).— Giordani Soika 1987: 147 (distinct species from D. campaniforme , fide van der Vecht in litt.).— Gupta 1997: 423 (list). Eumenes boscii de Saussure 1855: 132 (MS name, as a synonym of E . esuriens ).— Maindron 1882: 271 (syn. of E . esuriens ).— Bequaert 1926b: 543 (syn. of campaniformis var. esuriens ). Eumenes caffer var. esuriens ; Bequaert 1918: 275 (cat.; in part; not p. 73).— Dover & Rao 1922: 237 ( India ).— Dover 1925 [1924]: 295 ( India ; Pakistan ). Eumenes campaniformis var. esuriens ; Bequaert 1926b: 541 (key), 542 ( India ).— Giordani Soika 1934a: 227 .— Iwata 1965: 105 ( campanoformis [!]), pl. 9 fig. 12 (anat. ovary), pl. 10 fig. 13 (egg). Delta campaniforme esuriens ; Giordani Soika 1957: 474 ; 1970: 175 ( Iran ; Iraq ; Oman ; Saudi Arabia ).—van der Vecht and Fischer 1972: 135 (cat.).— Gusenleitner 1988: 184 ( Thailand ).— Krombein, 1991: 6 . Delta esuriens esuriens ; Giordani Soika 1992: 62 (separation from campaniforme ), 63 (distr.).— Gusenleitner 2004: 156 ( Oman ); 2005: 1200 ( Oman ); 2006a: 694 ( India ); 2006b: 1305 ( Pakistan ).— Gusenleitner & Madl 2009: 467 ( Mauritius ).— Gusenleitner 2010: 449 , pls. 42–43 ( United Arab Emirates ).— Gusenleitner & Madl 2011: 135 ( New Caledonia ; cat.).— Gusenleitner 2011b: 1364 ( Laos ).— Mahmood et al. 2012: 44 , fig. 20a–d ( Pakistan ).— Gusenleitner 2013: 25 (distr.).— Nguyen et al. 2014: 9 (list).— Nguyen 2015: 97 (key), figs. 1C, 1F, 2A, 3C ( Vietnam ).— Pannure et al . 2016: 17 ( India ).— Rafi et al. 2017: 11 ( Pakistan ).— Carpenter & Gadallah 2020: 197 (list).— Gawas et al. 2020: 8 ( India ; list).— Dorji et al. 2022: 306 ( Bhutan ).— Carpenter 2023: 3 (distr.). ? Delta esuriense ; Kusigemati et al. 1996: 11 (Malakal). Delta esuriens ; Castro & Dvořák 2009: 296 ( Israel ).— Srinivasan & Kumar 2010: 1315 , image 2 ( India ).— Bodlah et al. 2012: 760 (key), 761, fig. 1H ( Pakistan ).—Kumar 2013 [2012]: 55, figs. 1–5 (redescription; India ).— Srinivasan & Kumar 2013: 116 ( India ).— Kumar & Sharma 2014a: 234 (list), 242 ( India ), fig. 11; 2014b: 564 (list), 570 ( India ), image 13; 2015: 8097 (list), 8117 (key), 8118 ( India ), image 25.— Siddiqui et al. 2015: 507 , fig. 17a–b ( Pakistan ).— Pham & Li 2015: 134 (list).— Nidup et al. 2016: 9469 , fig. 3 ( Bhutan ).—Sheik et al. 2017: 199 (list), 206 ( India ; parasite: Strepsiptera), figs.16, 21.— Rasool et al. 2017: 649 ( Pakistan ).—Kumar et al. 2019: 448 ( India ), image 15. Distr.: Saudi Arabia ; Qatar ; United Arab Emirates ; Oman ; Mauritius ; Israel ; Iraq ; Iran ; Pakistan ; India ; Sri Lanka ; Bhutan ; Myanmar ; Thailand ; Laos ; Vietnam ; adventive in New Caledonia .