Delta esuriens gracile (de SAUSSURE 1852)

J. M, Gusenleitner, J. & Madl, M., 2010, A Catalogue of the Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) of the Ethiopian Region excluding Malagasy Subregion. Part II: Genera Delta de SAUSSURE 1885 to Zethus FABRICIUS 1804 and Species Incertae Sedis, Linzer biologische Beiträge 42 (1), pp. 95-315 : 104-105

Delta esuriens gracile (de SAUSSURE 1852)

Eumenes gracilis n.sp.: de SAUSSURE 1852: 57 (descr., Senegal).

Eumenes esuriens var. gracilis de SAUSSURE : de SAUSSURE 1855: 131 (tax.), 132 (tax.).

Eumenes esuriens gracilis de SAUSSURE : MAINDRON 1882b: 270 (syn. of Eumenes esuriens ).

Eumenes esuriens gracilis de SAUSSURE : MAGRETTI 1884b: 612 ( Ethiopia, Sudan).

Eumenes esuriens gracilis de SAUSSURE : MAGRETTI 1885: 280 ( Ethiopia), 316 ( Ethiopia), 352 (cat.).

Eumenes esuriens gracilis de SAUSSURE : de DALLA TORRE 1894: 23 (cat.).

Eumenes esuriens gracilis de SAUSSURE : von DALLA TORRE 1904: 22 (cat.).

Eumenes caffer var. gracilis de SAUSSURE : BEQUAERT 1918: 71 (key), 275 (tax., cat.).

Eumenes (Delta) campaniformis var. gracilis de SAUSSURE : BEQUAERT 1926: 541 (key), 544 (tax.,

Kenya). Eumenes campaniformis var. gracilis de SAUSSURE : GIORDANI SOIKA 1934a: 227 (cat.). Delta campaniformis gracilis (de SAUSSURE) : GIORDANI SOIKA 1961a: 243 (tax.). Delta campaniformis gracilis (de SAUSSURE) : GIORDANI SOIKA 1961b: 441 (fig. 1B). Delta campaniformis gracilis (de SAUSSURE) : GIORDANI SOIKA 1968: 528 ( Sudan). Delta campaniforme gracile (de SAUSSURE): GIORDANI SOIKA 1975: 11 (fig. 1), 12 (fig. 5), 13

(tax., fig. 7), 14 ( Nigeria). Delta campaniforme gracile (de SAUSSURE): MEDLER 1980: 476 (cat., Nigeria). Delta campaniforme gracile (de SAUSSURE): GIORDANI SOIKA 1987a: 149 (tax., Ghana, Senegal,

Somalia, Sudan). Delta campaniforme gracile (de SAUSSURE): GIORDANI SOIKA 1987b: 155 ( Gambia). Delta campaniforme gracile (de SAUSSURE): GIORDANI SOIKA 1989b: 57 (tax., Cameroon,

Nigeria, Senegal, Togo). Delta campaniforme gracile (de SAUSSURE): GUSENLEITNER 1992: 679 ( Ghana, Mali, Senegal). Delta esuriens gracile (de SAUSSURE): GIORDANI SOIKA 1992: 61 (tax., Gambia, " Guinea ", Ivory

Coast, Mali, Mauritania, Nigeria, Senegal, Sudan). * Delta campaniforme (de SAUSSURE) : BUXTON 1937: 587 ( Kenya). * Eumenes esuriens (FABRICIUS) : SMITH 1860a: 86 ( Senegal, Sierra Leone). Eumenes esuriens (FABRICIUS) : SMITH 1860b: 126 ( Senegal, Sierra Leone). Eumenes esuriens (FABRICIUS) : WALKER 1871: 29 ( Eritrea). Eumenes esuriens (FABRICIUS) : MORICE 1904 (In: MORICE & SZÉPLIGETI): 3 ( Sudan). Eumenes esuriens (FABRICIUS) : LONGSTAFF 1912: 411 ( Sudan). Eumenes esuriens (FABRICIUS) : ROUBAUD 1916: 3, 60 (biol., Mali). Eumenes caffer var. esuriens (FABRICIUS) : BEQUAERT 1918: 275 (cat. partim). Eumenes caffer var. esuriens (FABRICIUS) : SCHOUTEDEN 1919: 174 ( Democratic Republic of

Congo). Eumenes esuriens (FABRICIUS) : von SCHULTHESS 1922b: 96 ( Sudan). Eumenes esuriens (FABRICIUS) : GUIGLIA 1928: 495 ( Somalia). Eumenes campaniformis var. esuriens (FABRICIUS) : GUIGLIA 1932: 120 ( Somalia).

D i s t r i b u t i o n: Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Togo.

Known from the Palearctic Region. In the Malagasy Subregion recorded from Seychelles (Aldabra).