Species Dielis pilipes - Hairy-footed Scoliid Wasp

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Identification · Works Cited

Campsomeris pilipes - Dielis pilipes - female

Reality Check: Campsomeris pilipes? - Dielis pilipes - female

Wasp (Polistes?) on Thistle - Dielis pilipes - female

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)

No Taxon (Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps)

Superfamily Scolioidea

Family Scoliidae (Scoliid Wasps)

Tribe Campsomerini

Genus Dielis

Species pilipes (Hairy-footed Scoliid Wasp)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Campsomeris pilipes (Saussure, 1858)

Orig. comb.: Elis pilipes Saussure, 1858

Explanation of Names

Dielis pilipes (Saussure, 1858)

from the New Latin pilipēs ('hairy-footed'), derived from the Ancient Latin pilus ('hair') + pēs ('foot')

Identification

Female Dielis in our area are separated from other campsomerine genera by their white hairs, particularly on the face. Among western Dielis, females are separated from D. tolteca by their yellow-marked abdomens (orange in D. tolteca). Structurally, the propodeum is punctate, in contrast to the smooth propodeum of D. tolteca. (1) Female D. pilipes are also separated from D. plumipes by the lack of an orangish-brown "collar" of hairs on the pronotum.

Males are virtually unique among all campsomerine species in our area for their 5 abdominal bands (4 in other species apart from D. tejensis known only from Texas,(2) and xanthic individuals of the allopatric Pygodasis quadrimaculata from the southeastern US).

Works Cited

1.	Scoliid Wasps of the Southwestern United States MacKay W.P. 1987. Southwestern Naturalist 32(3): 357-362.

2.	New Dielis species and structural dichotomy of the mitochondrial cox2 gene in Scoliidae wasps Przemyslaw Szafranski . 2023. Scientific Reports, 13(1): 1-12 .

Contributed by George Waldren on 17 February, 2010 - 11:01pm
Additional contributions by v belov, Robert H. Biagi, PaleoJon
Last updated 2 October, 2024 - 11:12pm

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