Delta pyriforme
| Delta pyriforme | |
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| Delta pyriforme from Kerala, India | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Vespidae |
| Genus: | Delta |
| Species: | D. pyriforme
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| Binomial name | |
| Delta pyriforme (Fabricius, 1775)
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Delta pyriforme is a species of
Eumeninae of the family Vespidae
. They are distributed across Asia. Several populations are recognized:
- D. p. circinale (Fabricius, 1804)
- D. p. nigrocinctum Giordani Soika, 1993
- D. p. philippinense (Bequaert, 1928)
- D. p. pyriforme (Fabricius, 1775)
Delta pyriforme males have a yellow labrum and clypeus contrasting with the brown body colour. They also have a yellow pronotum and differ from Delta esuriens in lacking a yellow band on the petiole. Delta conoideum lacks yellow on the thorax.[1][2]
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