Genus Delta Saussure, 1855
- Delta Saussure, H. de 1855. Études sur la Famille des Vespides. Troisième Partie comprenant la Monographie des Masariens et un Supplément à la Monographie des Eumeniens. Paris : Masson 49-288 pls vi-xiv. [Griffin, F.J. 1939. On the dates of publication of Saussure (H. de): Etudes sur la famille des Vespides 1–3, 1852–1858. Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History 1: 211–212 (dates pages and plates published)] [130, 132, 143] [proposed as a division of Eumenes Latreille, 1802].
Type species:
Vespa maxillosa DeGeer, 1775 by subsequent designation, see Bequaert, J. 1926. The genus Eumenes Latreille, in South Africa, with a revision of the Ethiopian species (Hymenoptera). Annals of the South African Museum 23: 483-577 [137] (erroneously as Sphex maxillosus DeGeer) (= Vespa emarginata Linnaeus, 1758).Secondary source:
van der Vecht, J. & Carpenter, J.M. 1990. A catalog of the genera of the Vespidae (Hymenoptera). Zoologische Verhandelingen (Leiden) 260: 1-62 [18]. - Alferia Giordani Soika, A. 1934. Un nuovo genere egiziano di Eumenini (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Bulletin de la Société Royale d'Entomologique d'Egypte 4: 436-439 [436].
Type species:
Eumenes anomalus Zavattari, 1909 by original designation. - Erinys Zirngiebl, L. 1953. Zur Wespen-fauna der Pfalzel. Mitteilungen der Pollichia 3 1: 160-179 [173] [subgenus of Eumenes Latreille (invalid homonym of Erinys Rye, 1876)].
Type species:
Eumenes unguiculatus Villers, 1789 by monotypy.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Carpenter, J.M. 1986. A synonymic generic checklist of the Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Psyche (Cambridge) 93(1–2): 61-90 [68]
Distribution
States
Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia
IBRA
ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)