Review of potter wasps with a petiolate metasoma excluding so-called "Zethinae" (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae) in the Lesser Sunda Islands of the Indonesian Archipelago

Abstract

Twenty species and six subspecies of nine genera of eumenine wasps with a petiolate metasoma occurring in the Lesser Sunda Islands are listed. New synonymies are proposed for Delta campaniforme campaniforme (Fabricius 1775) (=D. campaniforme gracilior Giordani Soika 1986, syn. nov.) and D. nigriculum Giordani Soika 1986, stat. nov. (=D. campaniforme rendalloide Giordani Soika 1993, syn. nov.). Eumenes piriformis de Saussure and E. inconspicuus Smith are newly recorded from the Lesser Sunda Islands; E. pius Giordani Soika, D. nigriculum Giordani Soika, D. pyriforme (Fabricius), D. sciarum (van der Vecht), Pareumenes nigerrimus van der Vecht, and Labus vandervechti Giordani Soika, are newly recorded from some islands of the Lesser Sunda. Hitherto unknown male of P. nigerrimus is described.

Taxonomic Notes on the Genus Delta de Saussure (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae) from Vietnam

“…This subspecies has been recorded from India, Nepal, China, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Australia, Philippines, and adventive in U.S.A.: Hawaii (de Saussure, 1852; Smith, 1861;de Saussure et al, 1904;Bequaert, 1926;Gusenleitner, 1987Gusenleitner, , 2006Gusenleitner, , 2011Giordani Soika and Kojima, 1988;Giordani Soika, 1991;Nugroho et al, 2013;Carpenter, unpublished)…”

New records of petiolate potter wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae) from Bhutan

“…Measurements refer to the total length (TL = Head + Mesosoma + Metasoma). Identifications are based on the keys and descriptions provided by Bingham (1897), Liu (1941), van der Vecht (1963), Srinivasan & Kumar (2010), Bodlah et al (2012), Kumar (2012), Nugroho et al (2013), Siddiqui et al (2015) and Nguyen (2015a,b). The pinned and dried specimens are deposited in Sherubtse Natural History Museum, Sherubtse College, Royal University of Bhutan.…”

“…(Bingham 1897;Srinivasan & Kumar 2010;Bodlah et al 2012;Kumar 2012: Nugroho et al 2013Siddiqui et al 2015).…”

The Eumeninae (Hymenoptera, Vespidae) of Hong Kong (China), with description of two new species, two new synonymies and a key to the known taxa

“…Asian species have been partially reviewed in the last decade or so and we will refer the reader to the works of Yamane 1990, Nugroho et al 2013, Nguyen et al 2014, Girish Kumar and Sharma 2014, 2015, Pannure et al 2016, Tan et al 2018b, and Li and Carpenter 2018, 2019 for additional and comparative information. Prior to this study, 22 species in 15 genera of the subfamily Eumeninae were fragmentarily reported in the literature from Hong Kong.…”