Delta dimidiatipenne

Siddiqui, Junaid Ali, Bodlah, Imran, Carpenter, James M., Naeem, Muhammad, Ahmad, Munir & Bodlah, Muhammad Adnan, 2015, Vespidae (Hymenoptera) of the Pothwar region of Punjab, Pakistan, Zootaxa 3914 (5), pp. 501-524 : 507

Delta dimidiatipenne (de Saussure, 1852)

( Figs 18 a–b)

Eumenes dimidiatipennis de Saussure 1852: 51, ♀, ♂, “Djidda (Arabie), les Indes Orientales, l’Egypte” (Paris).

Eumenes transcaspicus Morawitz 1895: 414 , ♀, ♂, “Transcaspia: Kasandshik; Pul-i-chatun” [ Turkmenistan](? St. Petersburg).

Material examined. Rawalpindi, 18.ix.11, 1♂, 13.ix.12, 1♀, Attock, 20.ix.12, 1♀, 1♂; Chakwal, 12.ix.12, 1♀, 1♂; Murree, 24.ix.12, 2♀; Jhelum, 25.ix.12, 2♀, 1♂.

Distribution. Iran, India, Yemen, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Syria, Algeria, Central Africa, Pakistan, Egypt, South Africa, Arabia, Central Sahara, Somalia, Palestine Palestine, Madagascar and Palestine ( Srinivasan & Kumar 2010).

Comments. Collected specimens were compared with the published description of Delta dimidiatipenne de Saussure given by Bodlah et al. (2012). This species is distinguished on the basis of the second metasomal segment at posterior part and succeeding metasomal segments black ( Fig. 18 a). The lower half of the frons and clypeus are red. This species is reported for the first time from Murree, Punjab.

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FIGURE 18. Delta dimidiatipenne. a. Metasoma. b. ♂.