Published December 4, 2007 | Version v1
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Delta dimidiatipenne

  • 1. Šumava National Park Administration, Department of Science and Research, Sušická 399, CZ- 341 92 Kašperské Hory, Czech Republic; e-mail: libor. dvorak @ npsumava. cz
  • 2. Av. Sanz Gadea 9, E- 44002 Teruel, Spain; e-mail: discoelius @ discoelius. jazztel. es

Description

Delta dimidiatipenne (de Saussure, 1852)

Material examined. SPAIN: CANARY ISLANDS, LAS PALMAS PROVINCE, GRAN CANARIA ISLAND, Maspalomas, in the town, 31.vii.2006, 1 ♁, L. Dvořák leg., det. & coll.; Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 5 m a.s.l., ii.1989, 1 ♁, G. Aguado leg., L. Castro det. & coll.

This is a wide-ranging species whose distribution area reaches from North-West Africa, Egypt, Somalia, Turkey, Yemen, and Afghanistan to Nepal and western India (VAN DER VECHT & FISCHER 1972). Since the last decades of the 20th century, the species is known also from the Canary Islands (the first record was published by VARDY & VARDY (1988)), currently from the islands of Lanzarote, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria and Tenerife. It is now widespread in the south and south-east of Gran Canaria (LAUTERBACH & LATSCH- LAUTERBACH 2007).

Notes

Published as part of Dvořák, Libor & Castro, Leopoldo, 2007, New and noteworthy records of vespid wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) from the Palaearctic region, pp. 229-236 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 47 on page 230, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5328343

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Event date
2006-07-31
Family
Eumenidae
Genus
Delta
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hymenoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
de Saussure
Species
dimidiatipenne
Taxon rank
species
Verbatim event date
2006-07-31
Taxonomic concept label
Delta dimidiatipenne (Saussure, 1852) sec. Dvořák & Castro, 2007

References

  • VECHT J. VAN DER & FISCHER F. C. J. 1972: Hymenopterorum Catalogus, 8. Palaearctic Eumenidae. Dr. W. Junk N. V., ' s-Gravenhage, vi + 200 pp.
  • VARDY C. & VARDY M. 1988: Collecting in Fuerteventura, Canary Islands. Sphecos 17: 19.
  • LAUTERBACH K. - E. & LATSCH-LAUTERBACH M. 2007: Delta dimidiatipenne (Saussure, 1852) auf Gran Canaria. Mitteilungen des Internationalen Entomologischen Vereins 32: 75 - 80.