Delta pyriforme | |
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Delta pyriforme from Kerala, India | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Vespidae |
Genus: | Delta |
Species: | D. pyriforme |
Binomial name | |
Delta pyriforme (Fabricius, 1775) | |
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Delta pyriforme is a species of potter wasp in the subfamily Eumeninae of the family Vespidae. They are distributed across Asia. Several populations are recognized:
- D. p. circinale (Fabricius, 1804)
- D. p. nigrocinctum Giordani Soika, 1993
- D. p. philippinense (Bequaert, 1928)
- D. p. pyriforme (Fabricius, 1775)
Delta pyriforme males have a yellow labrum and clypeus contrasting with the brown body colour. They also have a yellow pronotum and differ from Delta esuriens in lacking a yellow band on the petiole. Delta conoideum lacks yellow on the thorax.[1][2]
References
- โ Pannure, Arati; Belavadi, Vasuki V.; Carpenter, James M. (2016). "Taxonomic studies on potter wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae) of south India". Zootaxa. 4171 (1): 1. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4171.1.1. ISSN 1175-5334.
- โ Yamane, Seiki; Matsuura, Hideaki (1991). "Establishment of Delta pyriforme (Fabricius) in the Bonin Islands, Japan (Hymenoptera, Eumenidae)". Tropics. 1 (2/3): 155โ162. doi:10.3759/tropics.1.155. ISSN 0917-415X.
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