Yellow Potter Wasp
Delta esuriens
14.33, 121.09
Field Notes
Description:
Feb 11, 2015 - ID updated to Delta esuriens following MarcoSelis' suggestion.
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Potter wasps (or mason wasps) are a cosmopolitan wasp group presently treated as a subfamily of Vespidae, but sometimes recognized in the past as a separate family, Eumenidae.
Delta companiforme gracilior (Giordani Soika, 1986), with distribution in India (Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, West Bengal), Australia, Egypt, Indonesia (Sulawesi), Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Senegal, Sumatra, Thailand.
Habitat:
Backyard garden, spotted nectaring on Duranta erecta (Golden Dewdrop) flowers.
Notes:
Reference:
http://threatenedtaxa.org/ZooPrintJournal/2010/November/o246826xi101313…
http://www.biolib.cz/en/taxonimage/id188589/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kenbob/4874863516/
http://www.vespa-bicolor.net/main/trips/sg9-2006.htm
http://www.oocities.org/brisbane_wasps/MudDauber.htm.
Similar to Sachin's spotting - http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/11764061.
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