esuriens esuriens (Fabricius)

Vespa esuriens Fabricius 1775: 393, sex not stated—“ India ” (København).— Gmelin 1790: 2754.—Olivier 1792 [1791]: 673.— Fabricius 1793: 280.— Jurine 1807: 171.

Vespa pediculata Olivier 1792 [1791]: 671—“Indes orientales” (type depository unknown).—de Saussure 1852: 56 (syn. of Eumenes esuriens (Fabricius)) .— Maindron 1882: 270 (syn. of Eumenes esuriens Fabricius).

Eumenes esuriens; Fabricius 1804: 286.—de Saussure 1852: 56, pl. XI fig. 2 (female, male; syn.: Vespa pediculata Olivier; “Indes Orientales”, Persia, etc.); 1855: 131 ( E. gracilis, and perhaps urvillei, are varieties of this species which is distributed from Senegal to China and the Sunda Is.).— Smith 1857: 22 (cat.; syns.: Vespa pediculata Oliv., Eumenes gracilis de Saussure and E. campaniformis de Saussure [sic!]).— Horne 1870: 166, pl. 20, 6, 6a (ethology).— Smith 1871b: 371 (cat.) [in part only].— Walker 1871: 29.— André 1884: 619.— Gribodo 1884: 356 (Burma).— Bingham 1888: 187 (Burma); 1897: 342.— Dalla Torre 1894: 23 (cat.).— Rothney 1903: 106 (escuriens [!]; India, very common).— Dalla Torre 1904: 22 (cat.).— Rudow 1904: 195 (nest; Java).— Morice & Szépligeti 1904: 3.— Paiva 1907: 15 (India).— Wickwar 1908: 118 (Ceylon).— Maxwell-Lefroy & Howlett 1909, Ind. Ins. Life: 211, fig. 117 (nest).— Dutt 1912: 229–231 (nest; India).—du Buysson 1912: 80 (Persia).— Roubaud 1916: 60–61 (ethology).— Dover 1921: 386 (India).—Guiglia 1928: 494.— Dusmet 1930: 103 (India).— Yasumatsu 1935, Annot. Zool. Jap. 15: 34 (Ishigaki Island), 35 (Iriomote Island).— Giordani Soika 1987: 147 (distinct species from D. campaniforme, fide van der Vecht in litt.).— Gupta 1997: 423 (list).

Eumenes boscii de Saussure 1855: 132 (MS name, as a synonym of E. esuriens).— Maindron 1882: 271 (syn. of E. esuriens).— Bequaert 1926b: 543 (syn. of campaniformis var. esuriens).

Eumenes caffer var. esuriens; Bequaert 1918: 275 (cat.; in part; not p. 73).— Dover & Rao 1922: 237 (India).— Dover 1925 [1924]: 295 (India; Pakistan).

Eumenes campaniformis var. esuriens; Bequaert 1926b: 541 (key), 542 (India).— Giordani Soika 1934a: 227.— Iwata 1965: 105 (campanoformis [!]), pl. 9 fig. 12 (anat. ovary), pl. 10 fig. 13 (egg).

Delta campaniforme esuriens; Giordani Soika 1957: 474; 1970: 175 (Iran; Iraq; Oman; Saudi Arabia).—van der Vecht and Fischer 1972: 135 (cat.).— Gusenleitner 1988: 184 (Thailand).— Krombein, 1991: 6.

Delta esuriens esuriens; Giordani Soika 1992: 62 (separation from campaniforme), 63 (distr.).— Gusenleitner 2004: 156 (Oman); 2005: 1200 (Oman); 2006a: 694 (India); 2006b: 1305 (Pakistan).— Gusenleitner & Madl 2009: 467 (Mauritius).— Gusenleitner 2010: 449, pls. 42–43 (United Arab Emirates).— Gusenleitner & Madl 2011: 135 (New Caledonia; cat.).— Gusenleitner 2011b: 1364 (Laos).— Mahmood et al. 2012: 44, fig. 20a–d (Pakistan).— Gusenleitner 2013: 25 (distr.).— Nguyen et al. 2014: 9 (list).— Nguyen 2015: 97 (key), figs. 1C, 1F, 2A, 3C (Vietnam).— Pannure et al. 2016: 17 (India).— Rafi et al. 2017: 11 (Pakistan).— Carpenter & Gadallah 2020: 197 (list).— Gawas et al. 2020: 8 (India; list).— Dorji et al. 2022: 306 (Bhutan).— Carpenter 2023: 3 (distr.).

? Delta esuriense; Kusigemati et al. 1996: 11 (Malakal).

Delta esuriens; Castro & Dvořák 2009: 296 (Israel).— Srinivasan & Kumar 2010: 1315, image 2 (India).— Bodlah et al. 2012: 760 (key), 761, fig. 1H (Pakistan).—Kumar 2013 [2012]: 55, figs. 1–5 (redescription; India).— Srinivasan & Kumar 2013: 116 (India).— Kumar & Sharma 2014a: 234 (list), 242 (India), fig. 11; 2014b: 564 (list), 570 (India), image 13; 2015: 8097 (list), 8117 (key), 8118 (India), image 25.— Siddiqui et al. 2015: 507, fig. 17a–b (Pakistan).— Pham & Li 2015: 134 (list).— Nidup et al. 2016: 9469, fig. 3 (Bhutan).—Sheik et al. 2017: 199 (list), 206 (India; parasite: Strepsiptera), figs.16, 21.— Rasool et al. 2017: 649 (Pakistan).—Kumar et al. 2019: 448 (India), image 15.

Distr.: Saudi Arabia; Qatar; United Arab Emirates; Oman; Mauritius; Israel; Iraq; Iran; Pakistan; India; Sri Lanka; Bhutan; Myanmar; Thailand; Laos; Vietnam; adventive in New Caledonia.