Delta emarginatum ( Linnaeus, 1758 )

Delta emarginatum ( Linnaeus, 1758)

( Figs 32A View FIGURE 32 , 64F View FIGURE 64 )

Vespa emarginata Linnaeus, 1758: 574 View in CoL —“in America” [error] ( type lost?).

Vespa capensis Linnaeus, 1767: 952 View in CoL —“ ad Cap. b. Spei” ( type lost?). Junior subjective synonym of Vespa emarginata Linnaeus, 1758 View in CoL according to Day (1979: 58).

Vespa maxillosa DeGeer, 1773: 577 View in CoL , pl. 29 figs 1, 2—“ Surinam ” [error] (NHRS). Junior subjective synonym of Vespa emarginata Linnaeus, 1758 View in CoL according to Retzius (1783: 63).

Sphex tinctor Christ, 1791: 311 View in CoL , pl. 31 fig. 1, ♀ —locality not stated ( type destroyed). Junior subjective synonym of Vespa emarginata Linnaeus, 1758 View in CoL according to Schulz (1912: 60).

Vespa guineensis Fabricius, 1793: 277 View in CoL —“in Guinea ” ( type depository unknown). Junior subjective synonym of Vespa emarginata Linnaeus, 1758 View in CoL according to Schulz (1912: 87).

Eumenes savignyi Guérin-Méneville, 1844: 446 —“le Sénégal et l’Égypte” ( type depository unknown). Junior subjective synonym of Vespa emarginata Linnaeus, 1758 View in CoL according to Giordani Soika (1989b: 55).

Eumenes tinctor ferruginea Magretti, 1884b: 610 View in CoL , ♂, ♀ —locality not stated ( type depository unknown). Junior subjective synonym of Vespa emarginata Linnaeus, 1758 View in CoL according to Carpenter et al. (2010: 104).

Eumenes erythrospila Cameron, 1910: 175 View in CoL (key), 178, ♀, ♂ —“ Kilimandjaro: Kibonoto, 1000–1300 m.” (NHRS). Junior subjective synonym of Vespa emarginata Linnaeus, 1758 View in CoL according to Meade-Waldo (1913: 51).

Distribution. Madagascar: Antananarivo, Antsiranana, Fianarantsoa, Mahajanga, Toliara ( de Saussure 1890; Brancsik 1891; Gribodo 1895; von Schulthess 1907, 1919; Giordani Soika 1991a; Borsato 1999) ( Fig. 64F View FIGURE 64 ). Algeria, Angola, Burkina Faso, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde Islands, Central African Republic, Comoros, Congo, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Libya, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Réunion, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia.