Delta dimidiatipenne

Mahmood, Khalid, Ullah, Mishkat, Aziz, Abdul, Hasan, Syed Azhar & Inayatullah, Mian, 2012, To the knowledge of Vespidae (Hymenoptera) of Pakistan, Zootaxa 3318, pp. 26-50 : 43

Delta dimidiatipenne (de Saussure, 1852)

Figs 19 (a–d)

Female: Body length 22–24.5 mm (n = 5), fore wing length 20.5– 22 mm (n = 5). Male: Body length 18.5–19.5 mm (n = 4), fore wing length 16.25– 17 mm (n = 4).

Material examined. PAKISTAN: Azad Kashmir: Bagh, 1Ψ, 29.vii.1986, Afzal. Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa: Mansehra, Balakot, 1ɗ, 23.vii.1987, Fiaz; Dir, 1ɗ, 13.viii.1987, Abro; Noshkey, 1ɗ, 21.ix.1988, Fida ( PMNH); Peshawar, 2Ψ, 28.viii.2008, Aziz ( KPAUP). Punjab: Islamabad, 1ɗ, 08.xi.1989, 1Ψ, 19.vii.2002, 1Ψ, 19.viii.2006, Fida ( PMNH).

Distribution. Afghanistan, Algeria, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Iran, Madagascar, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Palestine, Somalia, South Africa, Syria and Yeman ( Srinivasan & Kumar 2010).

Figures

FIGURE 19. Delta dimidiatipenne. a, habitus; b, head, frontal view; c, head and mesosoma, dorsal view; d, metasoma, dorsal view.