Delta pyriforme ( Fabricius, 1775 )

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 : 44-45

Delta pyriforme ( Fabricius, 1775)

Figs 21 (a–d)

Female: Body length 23.6 mm (n = 1), fore wing length 17.6 mm (n = 1).

Material examined. PAKISTAN: Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa: Peshawar, 1Ψ, 28.viii.2008, Aziz ( KPUAP). Punjab: Islamabad, 1ɗ, 8.xi.1989, Fida ( PMNH).

Distribution. Bhutan, Cambodia, China, Hawaii, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Moluccas, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam. ( Gusenleitner 2007, Srinivasan & Kumar 2010).

Figures

FIGURE 21. Delta pyriforme. a, habitus; b, head, frontal view; c, head and mesosoma, dorsal view; d, metasoma, lateral view.