Dielis
Genus of wasps
Dielis is a New World genus of the family Scoliidae, also known as the scoliid wasps, formerly treated as a subgenus within Campsomeris.
01Description 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. The forewing of Dielis species includes two recurrent wing veins and two submarginal cells as typical of the genera of Campsomerini, apart from Colpa.
02Distribution
Species of this genus occur from Canada south to Chile and Argentina.
03Species
There are 12 species of Dielis:
- 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)
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