Delta conoideum
| Delta conoideum | |
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| 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) | |
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Delta conoideum, the mason wasp, is a species of potter wasp in the subfamily Eumeninae of the family Vespidae.[1][2]
Distribution
[edit]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
[edit]- 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.