Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods) ➔ Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods) ➔ Class Insecta (Insects) ➔ Order Hymenoptera (Sawflies, wasps, ants, bees) ➔ Family Vespidae (Social wasps and some solitary wasps)
Delta dimidiatipenne (Saussure, 1852)
Synonyms and other combinations:
Eumenes dimidiatipennis de Saussure, 1852 | Eumenes maxillosa (De Geer, 1773) | Eumenes maxillosus (De Geer, 1773) ? | Eumenes transcaspicus Morawitz, 1895 |
(?: ambiguous synonym)
ES, Fuerteventura, Costa Calma
2007-03-03 11:07:24
det. Christian Schmid-Egger
ES, Fuerteventura, Costa Calma
2007-03-03 11:42:03
ES, Fuerteventura, Costa Calma
2010-03-07 13:33:07
male
ES, Fuerteventura, Costa Calma
2008-02-22 15:24:10
det. Christian Schmid-Egger
male
ES, Fuerteventura, Costa Calma
2008-02-22 15:24:15
det. Christian Schmid-Egger
female
ES, Fuerteventura, Costa Calma
2013-04-09 15:16:40
conf. Discoelius
female
ES, Fuerteventura, Costa Calma
2013-04-09 15:15:52
ES, Fuerteventura, Jandia
2011-03-19 10:47:39
male
ES, Fuerteventura, Costa Calma
2019-03-12 13:50:04
male
ES, Fuerteventura, Costa Calma
2019-03-12 13:50:10
male
ES, Fuerteventura, Costa Calma
2019-03-12 13:50:35
male
ES, Fuerteventura, Costa Calma
2017-05-16 14:07:59
male
ES, Fuerteventura, Costa Calma
2017-05-16 14:08:03
male
ES, Fuerteventura, Costa Calma
2017-05-17 10:46:38
female with prey
ES, Fuerteventura, Costa Calma
2013-11-28 10:36:56
female with prey
ES, Fuerteventura, Costa Calma
2013-11-28 10:37:02
female with prey
ES, Fuerteventura, Costa Calma
2013-11-28 10:37:21
ES, Fuerteventura, Costa Calma
2017-05-11 11:09:37
ES, Fuerteventura, Costa Calma
2017-05-11 00:00:00
Classification:
Delta dimidiatipenne belongs to the subfamily Eumeninae.Distribution:
North Africa, Near East, Middle East to India and Nepal. Immigrated to the Canary Islands and now frequently found in tourist areas.Description:
Large red and black coloured wasp with a body length up to 31 mm. The sexes can be distinguished by the shape of the antennae and the colour of the clypeus (head shield). Males have hook-shaped tips of antennae and a yellow clypeus. Females have a red clypeus.Habitat:
Desert areas, parks, gardens, hotel complexes.Biology:
The adult wasps feed on nectar.The females hunt caterpillars and paralyze them with a sting. Here a successful female with a captured caterpillar of an owled moth from the subfamily Plusiinae is shown. The paralyzed caterpillars are introduced into a previously built nest, which is equipped with an egg, and serve as food for the larva growing in it. The penultimate picture shows remains of old nests and a newly built nest of Delta dimidiatipenne on the wall of a light shaft with skylight in the corridor of a hotel complex. The last picture shows the master builder finishing work on the nest. The green of a caterpillar can be seen in the nest opening.
References, further reading, links:
- Gusenleitner J. (2016). ZOBODAT: Zoological-Botanical Database (Vespoidea) (version 4.0, Oct 2011). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 2016 Annual Checklist (Roskov Y., Abucay L., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Flann C., Bailly N., Kirk P., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., De Wever A., eds). Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2016. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-884X.
- Karl-Ernst Lauterbach & Michaela Latsch-Lauterbach: Delta dimidiatipenne (Saussure, 1852) auf Gran Canaria (Hymenoptera: Eumenidae). In: Mitt. internat. entomol. Ver. Frankfurt a.M., ISSN 1019-2808, Bd. 32 (2007), Heft 1/2, S. 75 - 80
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