Dielis

Genus of wasps

Dielis
Dielis trifasciata trifasciata. Museum specimen
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Subphylum:
Hexapoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Hymenoptera
Family:
Scoliidae
Tribe:
Campsomerini
Genus:
Dielis

Saussure & Sichel, 1864

Dielis is a New World genus of the family Scoliidae, also known as the scoliid wasps, formerly treated as a subgenus within Campsomeris.[1]

Description and identification

Dielis are medium sized wasps that exhibit strong sexual dimorphism. The females are black with broad yellow or orange bands on the abdomen, often on the first 3 or 4 tergites. The males have yellow bands on the first 4 or 5 tergites. The setae are usually white, though in some species there is a yellowish to brownish tint.[2] The forewing of Dielis species includes two recurrent wing veins and two submarginal cells as typical of the genera of Campsomerini, apart from Colpa.[3]

Distribution

Species of this genus occur from Canada south to Chile and Argentina.[2]

Species

There are 12 species of Dielis:[4][1][5]

  • Dielis auripilis (Fox, 1896)
  • Dielis bahamensis (Bradley, 1964)
  • Dielis chilensis (Saussure, 1858)
  • Dielis diabo Golfetti & Noll, 2023
  • Dielis dorsata (Bradley, 1940) – Caribbean scoliid wasp
  • Dielis pilipes (Saussure, 1858) – hairy-footed scoliid wasp
  • Dielis plumipes (Drury, 1770) – feather-legged scoliid wasp
  • Dielis pseudonyma (Schulz, 1906)
  • Dielis tejensis Szafranski, 2023
  • Dielis tolteca (Saussure, 1857) – Toltec scoliid wasp
  • Dielis trifasciata (Fabricius, 1793) – three-banded scoliid wasp
  • Dielis whitelyi (Kirby, 1889)
  • D. diabo female in Brazil.
    D. diabo female in Brazil.
  • D. dorsata female in Florida.
    D. dorsata female in Florida.
  • D. dorsata male in Florida.
    D. dorsata male in Florida.
  • D. pilipes female in the western United States.
    D. pilipes female in the western United States.
  • D. pilipes male in California.
    D. pilipes male in California.
  • D. plumipes fossulana female in Florida.
    D. plumipes fossulana female in Florida.
  • D. plumipes fossulana male in Florida.
    D. plumipes fossulana male in Florida.
  • D. tejensis male in Texas.
    D. tejensis male in Texas.
  • D. tolteca female in California.
    D. tolteca female in California.
  • D. tolteca male in California.
    D. tolteca male in California.
  • D. trifasciata nassauensis female in the Bahamas.
    D. trifasciata nassauensis female in the Bahamas.
  • D. trifasciata trifasciata female in Florida.
    D. trifasciata trifasciata female in Florida.
  • D. trifasciata trifasciata male in Cuba.
    D. trifasciata trifasciata male in Cuba.

References

  1. ^ a b Golfetti, Ivan Fernandes; Noll, Fernando Barbosa (2023). "After more than half a century: Dielis diabo (Hymenoptera: Scoliidae: Scoliinae), a new scoliid from the Neotropics". Zootaxa. 5231 (3): 345–350. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5231.3.10. PMID 37045140. S2CID 256447441.
  2. ^ a b Bradley, James Chester (1957). "The Taxa of Campsomeris (Hymenoptera: Scoliidae) Occurring in the New World". Transactions of the American Entomological Society. 83 (2): 65–77. JSTOR 25077743.
  3. ^ Ramírez-Guillén, Luis Damián; Falcon-Brindis, Armando; Gómez, Benigno (2022). "The Scoliidae wasps (Hymenoptera: Scolioidea) of Mexico: taxonomy and biogeography". Zootaxa. 5214 (1): 47–88. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5214.1.2. PMID 37044915. S2CID 254354124.
  4. ^ Osten, T. (2005). "Checkliste der Dolchwespen der Welt (Insecta: Hymenoptera, Scoliidae). Teil 1: Proscoliinae und Scoliinae: Campsomerini. Teil 2: Scoliinae: Scoliini. Teil 3: Literatur" [Checklist of the Scoliidae of the World. Part 1: Proscoliinae and Scoliinae: Campsomerini. Part 2: Scoliinae: Scoliini. Part 3: Literature] (PDF). Bericht der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft Augsburg (in German). 62 (220–221): 1–62. Retrieved 2014-06-24.
  5. ^ Szafranski, Przemyslaw (2023). "New Dielis species and structural dichotomy of the mitochondrial cox2 gene in Scoliidae wasps". Scientific Reports. 13 (1): 1950. doi:10.1038/s41598-023-27806-x. PMC 9895450. PMID 36732536.

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Taxon identifiers
Dielis
  • Wikidata: Q64215003
  • BugGuide: 1637671
  • GBIF: 4668430
  • iNaturalist: 893796
  • IRMNG: 1423393
  • NCBI: 2928476
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