Delta conoideum

Delta conoideum
	Delta conoideum from south India
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Vespidae
Genus:	Delta
Species:	D. conoideum
Binomial name
	Delta conoideum; (Gmelin, 1790)
Synonyms
	Vespa conica Fabricius, 1787 (Homonym); Eumenes conica (Fabricius, 1787);

Delta conoideum, the mason wasp, is a species of potter wasp in the subfamily Eumeninae of the family Vespidae.^[1]^[2]

Distribution

This species can be found in India, Nepal, the Philippines, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Cambodia.^[1]^[3] Peptides in their venom have been studied by getting them to sting a block of agar.^[4]

References

1 2 3 GBIF Archived 2015-02-19 at the Wayback Machine
↑ Hingston, R. W. G. (1926). "The Mason wasp Eumenes conica, Part I. Architecture". Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 31: 241–247.
↑ A list of hymenoptera of Philippines Islands
↑ Bhagavathula, Naga Chaitanya; Kumar, Mukesh; Krishnappa, Chandrashekara (2016). "A simple non-invasive technique for venom milking from a solitary wasp Delta conoideum Gmelin (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)". Toxicon. 109: 4–6. doi:10.1016/j.toxicon.2015.10.023.

[fa-1] 1 2 3 GBIF Archived 2015-02-19 at the Wayback Machine

[2] Hingston, R. W. G. (1926). "The Mason wasp Eumenes conica, Part I. Architecture". Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 31: 241–247.

[3] A list of hymenoptera of Philippines Islands

[4] Bhagavathula, Naga Chaitanya; Kumar, Mukesh; Krishnappa, Chandrashekara (2016). "A simple non-invasive technique for venom milking from a solitary wasp Delta conoideum Gmelin (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)". Toxicon. 109: 4–6. doi:10.1016/j.toxicon.2015.10.023.

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