Delta de Saussure, 1855

Carpenter, James M. & Brown, Graham R., 2021, Catalogue of the Australian Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), Zootaxa 4919 (1), pp. 1-68 : 15

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Genus Delta de Saussure View in CoL View at ENA

Delta de Saussure 1855: 130 View in CoL , 132, 143, name for divisions II and III of genus Eumenes Latreille in de Saussure 1852, loc. cit. 1: 44, 60.

Type species: Vespa maxillosa DeGeer 1775 [= Vespa emarginata Linnaeus, 1758 View in CoL ], by subsequent designation of Bequaert 1925b: 137 [erroneously as Sphex maxillosus DeGeer , correctly in 1926b: 487].

Erinys Zirngiebl 1953: 173 , subgenus of Eumenes Latreille View in CoL [junior homonym of Erinys Rye 1876 ].

Type species: Vespa unguiculata Villers, 1789 , by monotypy.

Alfieria Giordani Soika 1934b: 436 View in CoL , genus.

Type species: Eumenes anomalus Zavattari 1909 , by original designation and monotypy.

Taxonomy: Neave 1939: 111 (Alferia [!]).— Blüthgen 1953: 3 (genus); 1961: 214, footnote (syn.: Erinys Zirngiebl ); 1963: 205 (homonymy of Erinys Zirngiebl ).— Cardale 1985: 170–173 (cat. Australian species).— Hermes et al. 2014: 453 (syn.: Alfieria Giordani Soika ).

Distribution: Widespread in the Old World, from Africa and Eurasia to Australia; one species has been introduced into the New World, and several species into Hawaii.

Ethology: The species build mud nests consisting of jug-like cells on the substrate, and provision them with caterpillars.