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Delta esuriens okinawae

f.VESPIDAE Eumeninae Okinawa Mud-wasp No Local Name

Delta esuriens okinawae

f.VESPIDAE Eumeninae Okinawa Mud-wasp No Local Name

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Intl. NamesOkinawa Mud‑wasp^EN Colourful Mud‑wasp^EN

Local Names

Pacific NamesNo Content

Sci. NamesDelta esuriens okinawae (accepted name) , Delta esuriens

High Tax. Eng.Invertebrate, Arthropod, Insect, Wasp

High Tax. Latink.ANIMALIA, p.ARTHROPODA, c.INSECTA, o.Hymenoptera, f.VESPIDAE, sf.Eumeninae

High Tax. Ext.k.ANIMALIA, p.ARTHROPODA, sp.ATELOCERATA, spc.HEXAPODA, c.INSECTA, sc.PTERYGOTA, o.Hymenoptera, so.Apocrita, io.Aculeata, spf.Vespoidea, f.VESPIDAE, sf.Eumeninae

Natl. PresencePresent

Sth. PresenceRR⁺⁺MG^PAT?MK?MT?AK?PL?MN?TK?

Nth. PresenceTN?MH?RK?PK^-NS?SW?

VouchersRR²⁰⁰² MG²⁰⁰⁴

Local OriginIntroduced; Recent; Naturalised

Global RangeNative: subspecies China - Taiwan; Introduced: se.Asia - Indonesia - Micronesia - Hawai‘i, PNG - Australia - N.Cal. - Fiji - Tonga - Cooks - Societies;

HabitatLand; Lowlands

ThreatenedNo Content

InvasivenessNo Content

BiosecurityNo Content

Medical StatusNo Content

Harmful StatusNo Content

UsesNo Content

IdentificationA very distinctive and colourful mud-wasp 25mmBL. Builds ±spherical mud cell, into which it puts small narcotized caterpillars, lays an egg and seals it up.
It builds a series of 3 to 5 closely attached cells.

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Vernacular Names

Island	Status	Main name
National name
Rarotonga	P	NK1
Mangaia	P	NK2
Ātiu		NK2
Ma‘uke		NK2
Miti‘āro		NK2
Aitutaki		NK2
Palmerston		NK2
Manuae
Tongareva-speak		NK2
Tongareva-write		NK2
Manihiki		NK2
Rakahanga		NK2
Pukapuka	A	NA
Nassau		NK2

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Present

Oceanic

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Island	Status
Rarotonga	++
Mangaia	Present
Ātiu
Ma‘uke
Miti‘āro
Aitutaki
Palmerston
Manuae
Takūtea
Tongareva
Manihiki
Rakahanga
Pukapuka	Absent
Nassau
Suwarrow

Note: S.Group (RR only - uncommon)

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Rarotonga _____ 2002 2fsP fieldspecimen+photo fieldspecimen+photo, Tupapa, 12/2002, G.McCormack, ID Jim Wiley (DOACS, Florida) and Josef Gusenleitner (Linz, Austria) as Delta esuriens okinawae. _____ 2004 1cs specimen specimen, Arorangi upper beach, 2004/9, M.Kuhlmann, in 2006 paper as Delta esuriens okinawae.

Mangaia _____ 2004 1cs specimen specimen, s.Ivirua on makatea 30m elev., 2004/9, M.Kuhlmann, in 2006 paper as Delta esuriens okinawae.

Ātiu

Ma‘uke

Miti‘āro

Aitutaki

Palmerston

Manuae

Takūtea

Tongareva

Manihiki

Rakahanga

Pukapuka

Nassau

Suwarrow

Identification

Editors NotesThe cladistic analysis of Vespoidea by Carpenter (1982) is summarized in Fig. 1. The Vespinae are the yellowjackets and hornets, treated here. The Polistinae are the paper wasps. In addition to morphological synapomorphies, the clade composed of the more...Polistinae and Vespinae is united by eusociality. The Stenogastrinae is mostly subsocial, but some of its members have developed eusociality independent of the Vespinae + Polistinae clade. The Stenogastrinae are only found in Southeast Asia. The remaining subfamilies (Euparagiinae, Masarinae and Eumeninae) have not evolved eusociality. The Eumeninae are the mason and potter wasps. They are the most speciose vespid group in North America, with 260 species (Borror et al. 1989). The clade (Eumeninae (Stenogastrinae (Polistinae + Vespinae))) is characterized by a crease in the wings, such that they can be folded longitudinally at rest. The Masarinae are solitary wasps that make mud nests on rocks or twigs (Borror et al. 1989). In North America they are found only in the western US and adjacent Canada (Akre et al. 1980). Their center of diversity is in the southern hemisphere (Brothers and Finnamore, 1993). The Masarinae are unique among the Vespidae in that they provision their cells with a mixture of pollen and nectar rather than arthropod prey. Euparagiinae is a rare nearctic group which is the sister group to all other vespids (Carpenter, 1982). Species of the genus Euparagia, the single genus in Euparagiinae, have retained many primitive characters. Some Euparagiinae make ground nests which they provision with beetle larvae (Brothers and Finnamore, 1993). They are found only in the western United States (Borror et al., 1989).

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McCormack, Gerald (2009-2017) Cook Islands Biodiversity & Ethnobiology Database, Version 2017.1. Cook Islands Natural Heritage Trust, Rarotonga. Online at http://cookislands.pacificbiodiversity.net
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