Subspecies Delta latreillei latreillei (Saussure, 1852)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Eumenes latreillei Saussure, H. de 1852. Études sur la Famille des Vespides. 1. Monographie des Guêpes solitaires, ou de la Tribu des Euméniens, comprenant la Classification et la Description de toutes les Espèces connues jusqu'à ce Jour, et servant de complément au Manuel de Lepeletier de Saint Fargeau. Paris : Masson 1-128 pls ii-v, vii, x, xiv. [for publication date 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 (pages and plates published)] [51 pl. x figs 5a-b].

  Type data:

   Holotype MCG ♀ adult, Australia (as New Holland).

Generic Combinations

• Delta latreillei latreillei (Saussure, 1852). —
  Borsato, W. 1996. Terzo contributo alla conoscenza degli Eumenidae Australiani. Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 127(3): 213-226 [published 29 Feb. 1996; publication dated 1995] [225]
• Delta latreillei (Saussure, 1852). —
  Giordani Soika, A. 1961. Les lignées phyletiques des Eumenes du globe. Verhandlungen XI Internationaler Kongress für Entomologie 1: 240-245 [243] (new combination)

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: predator, sedentary.

Extra Ecological Information

Mud-nest, prey larval Lepidoptera.

General References

Borsato, W. 1996. Terzo contributo alla conoscenza degli Eumenidae Australiani. Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 127(3): 213-226 [published 29 Feb. 1996; publication dated 1995] [225] (distribution)

Callan, E.M. 1981. Further records of Macrosiagon (Coleoptera: Rhipiphoridae) reared from eumenid and sphecid wasps in Australia. Australian Entomological Magazine 7: 81-83 (as host)

Donnell, F.O. 1944. Cell-building by a mason wasp. Victorian Naturalist 61: 67-68 (biology)

Giordani Soika, A. 1941. Studi sui Vespidi solitari. Bollettino della Società Veneziana Storia Naturale 2: 130-279 (taxonomy as Eumenes (Delta) pyriformis var. latreillei)

Giordani Soika, A. 1958. Biogeografia, evoluzione e sistematica dei Vespidi solitari della Polinesia meridionale. Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Venezia 10: 183-221 (taxonomy, distribution)

Giordani Soika, A. 1961. Les lignées philétiques des Eumenes s.l. du globe (Hym. Vesp.). Transactions of the 11th International Congress of Entomology Vienna, 1960 1: 240-245 (taxonomy, generic placement)

Girault, A.A. 1914. Observations on an Australian mud dauber which uses in part its own saliva in nest construction. Zeitschrift für Wissenschaftliche Insektenbiologie 10: 28-32 (biology)

Roth, H.L. 1885. Notes on the habits of some Australian Hymenoptera Aculeata. (With description of a new species by W.F. Kirby). Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 18: 318-328 (biology)

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