Delta pyriforme pyriforme ( Fabricius, 1775 )

Pannure, Arati & Carpenter, James M., 2016, Taxonomic studies on potter wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae) of south India, Zootaxa 4171 (1), pp. 1-50 : 18

Delta pyriforme pyriforme ( Fabricius, 1775)

Material examined. INDIA: Karnataka: Bangalore , GKVK, 916 m, 14 . vii.1980, 1 ♀, coll. GTVR; 1. v.1980, 1 ♀, coll. Mohan; 27. xii.1980, 1 ♀, coll. Belavadi; 930 m, 13°04' N 77°34' E, 14. iii.2014, 3 ♂, coll. G.P. Mutthuraju; 24. iv.2012, 1 ♀; 14. iii.2013, 1 ♀; 1. ii.2014, 3 ♂, 3♀, coll. A. Pannure; 1, 11, 19. iv.2009, 2 ♀, 1Ƌ, coll. H.C. Latha; 26. iv.2010, 1 ♀, coll. Subhash; 20. vii.2015, 1 ♀, coll. S. Hegde. Chikkamagaluru, Mudigere , 22. iii.2007, 1 ♀, coll. K.S. Girish ; 980 m, 22. xi.2006, 1 ♀, coll. Kamala. Hassan, Hassan, Agriculture college, 950 m, 12°58' N 76°16' E, 2014, 1♀, coll. students. Koppal, Munirabad , 466 m, 15°33' N 76°33' E, 5. xii.2012, 1 ♀, 14. x.2013, 1 ♂, coll. S. Najeer. Shimoga , 3. i.2014, 1 ♀, coll. Murali . Kerala: Thiruvananthapuram , 14. iii.2014, 1 ♀, coll. Anjali .

Distribution. India: Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu; Andaman & Nicobar Islands [Shoal bay], Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Odisha, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tripura, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal.— Pakistan, Bhutan, China, Hong Kong, Hawaii, Indonesia [ Moluccas], Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam ( Gusenleitner 2006; Srinivasan & Girish Kumar 2010, 2013; Girish Kumar & Lambert 2012; Girish Kumar & Sharma 2014, 2015b; Siddiqui et al. 2015).