xanthura xanthura (de Saussure)

Eumenes Xanthura de Saussure 1852: 46, pl. X fig. 4, female—“Les Indes Orientales?” (Paris).— Dalla Torre 1894: 33 (cat.).— Bingham 1897: 335 (key), 341 (New Caledonia; also? India).— Dalla Torre 1904: 25 (cat.).— Giordani Soika 1958 [1957]: 200, figs. 1–3, 5–6 ( xanthurus; in subgenus Delta; male).

Eumenes germaini Lucas 1875: lxxvii—“Nouvelle Caledonie, Nouméa” (Paris); 1876: 296, 300, female, male, pl. 4 figs. 1–8 (ethology); 1879: lxv (larva).— Maindron 1882: 76, 183, pl. 4 figs. 1–5 (larva; nest).— Dalla Torre 1894: 25 (cat.; germainii); 1904: 23 (cat.).— Vachal, 1907: 115 (Nouvelle Caledonie).—von Schulthess 1915: 49 (New Caledonia; Loyalty Is.).— Turner 1919a: 239 (New Caledonia).— Bequaert 1921a: 160; 1926b: 567 (distinct species).— Williams 1945: 421, fig. 7 (ethology).— Giordani Soika 1958 [1957]: 201 (syn. of Eumenes xanthurus (de Saussure)) .

Eumenes pyriformis var. xanthurus; Bequaert 1928b: 167 (colour phase of pyriformis).— Liu 1936, Peking Nat. Hist. Bull. 11: 101 (cat.).

Eumenes xanthurus xanthurus; Giordani Soika 1958 [1957]: 201 (in subgenus Delta; syn.: Eumenes germaini Lucas; New Caledonia; Loyalty Is.).

Delta xanthurus; Giordani Soika 1961b: 243; 1974: 289 ( xanthurum; Qld.: Murray I.).— Cardale 1985: 172 (cat.).— Jourdan & Mille 2006: 209.

Delta xanthurum xanthurum; Gusenleitner & Madl 2011: 135 (New Caledonia; cat.).