3) Delta conoideum (Gmelin, 1790)

Vespa conica Fabricius, 1787: 293 . Type data: BMNH. Type locality: “ China ” [junior primary homonym of Vespa conica Fabricius, 1775].

Vespa conoidea Gmelin, 1790: 2753 .

Sphex conica; Christ, 1791: 299.

Eumenes conica; Fabricius, 1804: 285.

Eumenes maxillosus var. conicus; Schulthess, 1914: 262.

Eumenes conoideus; van der Vecht, 1960: 5.

Eumenes emarginatus conoideus; Iwata, 1965: 105.

Delta conoideum; Gusenleitner, 1987: 269.

Material examined. INDIA: Karnataka: Yelahanka Bengaluru, 6.xii.2018, 1 ♀ & 3♂, Coll. Sandesh Gawas ; Savandurga, 4.x.2018, 1♂, Coll. Sandesh Gawas ; Kanakpura, 31.ii.2015, 2 ♀, Coll. Rajeshwari; GKVK Ben- galuru, 9.xii.2005, 1♀, Coll. Naveen Kumar, 24.iv.2012, 1 ♀; 1, 4.ii.2014, 1 ♂, 4 ♀, coll. A. Pannure; Sirsi, 6.xi.2007, 1♀, Coll. Umeshkumar ; Hebbal Bengaluru, 1.iii.2006, 1♀, Coll. Shivaprakash.

Distribution. India: Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Diu, Goa, Gujarat, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Odisha, Puducherry, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal. Elsewhere: Laos; China; Pakistan; Sri Lanka; Thailand; Vietnam. (Gusenleitner 2006, Srinivasan & Girish Kumar 2013, Girish Kumar & Sharma 2014a, Girish Kumar & Sharma 2014 b, Girish Kumar & Mazumdar 2015, Girish Kumar & Sharma 2015b, Nguyen 2015b, Nidup et al. 2016, Pannure et al. 2016, Rafi et al. 2017, Sheikh et al. 2017, Gawas et al. 2019, Girish Kumar et al. 2019b).