Delta emarginatum (LINNAEUS 1758)

Delta emarginatum (LINNAEUS 1758) View in CoL

Vespa emarginata Linnaeus : a LINNÉ 1767: 952 (descr., America).

Vespa emarginata DEGEER : GUÉRIN- MÉNEVILLE 1798: pl. 100 (fig. 7).

Delta emarginatum (LINNAEUS) : DOLLFUSS 1990: 123 ( Central African Republic).

Delta emarginatum (LINNAEUS) View in CoL : GESS 1996: 268 (app. 2: biol., South Africa), 295 (app. 2: biol., South Africa), 298 (app. 2: biol., South Africa).

Delta emarginatum View in CoL emarginatum (LINNAEUS) View in CoL : GUSENLEITNER & GUSENLEITNER 2010: 721 (cat., Kenya).

* Vespa maxillosa n.sp.: DEGEER 1753: 577 (descr., Surinam), pl. 29 (figs 1, 2).

Delta maxillosus View in CoL maxillosus DEGEER View in CoL : VESEY- FITZGERALD 1940: 35 ( Tanzania (Mafia)).

* Vespa capensis n.sp.: a LINNÉ 1767: 952 (descr., South Africa).

D i s t r i b u t i o n: Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, " Congo ", Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ivory Coast, Kenya ( Kenya, Pate), Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania ( Tanzania, Mafia), Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Known from the Palearctic Region. In the Malagasy Subregion recorded from Seychelles (Aldabra, Assumption, Astove, Cosmoledo), Comoros ( Grande Comore, Anjouan), Mayotte and Madagascar.

The correct name of the author under Vespa capensis is a Linné.