Delta emarginatum (LINNAEUS 1758)

J. M, Gusenleitner, J. & Madl, M., 2010, A Catalogue of the Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) of the Ethiopian Region excluding Malagasy Subregion. Part III: Classification, Additions, Corrections and Index, Linzer biologische Beiträge 42 (2), pp. 919-1004 : 937

Delta emarginatum (LINNAEUS 1758)

Vespa emarginata Linnaeus : a LINNÉ 1767: 952 (descr., America).

Vespa emarginata DEGEER : GUÉRIN- MÉNEVILLE 1798: pl. 100 (fig. 7).

Delta emarginatum (LINNAEUS) : DOLLFUSS 1990: 123 ( Central African Republic).

Delta emarginatum (LINNAEUS) : GESS 1996: 268 (app. 2: biol., South Africa), 295 (app. 2: biol., South Africa), 298 (app. 2: biol., South Africa).

Delta emarginatum emarginatum (LINNAEUS) : GUSENLEITNER & GUSENLEITNER 2010: 721 (cat., Kenya).

* Vespa maxillosa n.sp.: DEGEER 1753: 577 (descr., Surinam), pl. 29 (figs 1, 2).

Delta maxillosus maxillosus DEGEER : VESEY- FITZGERALD 1940: 35 ( Tanzania (Mafia)).

* Vespa capensis n.sp.: a LINNÉ 1767: 952 (descr., South Africa).

D i s t r i b u t i o n: Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, " Congo ", Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ivory Coast, Kenya ( Kenya, Pate), Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania ( Tanzania, Mafia), Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Known from the Palearctic Region. In the Malagasy Subregion recorded from Seychelles (Aldabra, Assumption, Astove, Cosmoledo), Comoros (Grande Comore, Anjouan), Mayotte and Madagascar.

The correct name of the author under Vespa capensis is a Linné.