Ropalidia mackayensis, Richards, 1978, 1978

Carpenter, James M. & Brown, Graham R., 2022, Catalogue of the Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), Zootaxa 5214 (4), pp. 451-495 : 464

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5214.4.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7401394

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scientific name

Ropalidia mackayensis
status

 

mackayensis Richards View in CoL

Ropalidia mackayensis Richards, 1978: 62 View in CoL (key), 105, Fig. 14, female, male (in subgenus Icariola) - “ Queensland Q2, 35 miles SE. of Ayr” (holotype female Canberra); also from numerous other localities in Queensland. - Cardale, 1985: 215 (in subgenus Icariola; cat.). - Jeanne, 1991: 203, 213, 225 (colony population). - Kojima, 1993a: 5 (biology). - Itô, 1993: 89 (in subgenus Icariola; ethology). - Kojima, 1996b: 328; 1996c: 350. - Kojima & Carpenter, 1997a: 34 (cat.). - Kojima, 1999b: 375 (note on holotype); 1999c: 383 (key), 387 (distr.), Figs 46, 50–51.

Distribution: NE coastal, N Gulf; Qld.

Cardale, J. C. (1985) Vespoidea and Sphecoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia, 2, 150 - 303.

Ito, Y. (1993) Behaviour and Social Evolution of Wasps. The Communal Aggregation Hypothesis. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 159 pp.

Jeanne, R. (1991) The swarm-founding Polistinae. In: Ross, K. G. & Matthews, R. W. (Eds.), The Social Biology of Wasps. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York, pp. 191 - 231. https: // doi. org / 10.7591 / 9781501718670 - 009

Kojima, J. (1993 a) Relative abundance of swarm-founding Ropalidia in the eusocial wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) in tropical Australia. New Entomologist, 42, 4 - 7.

Kojima, J. (1996 b) Taxonomy of the Ropalidia flavopicta - complex (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Polistinae). Zoologische mededeelingen, 70, 325 - 347.

Kojima, J. (1996 c) Reconsideration of the taxonomy of the Ropalidia malayana - complex (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Polistinae). Zoologische mededeelingen, 70, 349 - 359.

Kojima, J. & Carpenter, J. M. (1997 a) Catalog of species in the polistine tribe Ropalidiini (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). American Museum Novitates, 3199, 1 - 96.

Kojima, J. (1999 b) Taxonomic notes on Australian Ropalidia Guerin-Meneville, 1831 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Polistinae). Entomological Science, 2, 367 - 377.

Richards, O. W. (1978) The Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Australian Journal of Zoology, Supplementary Series, 61, 1 - 132. https: // doi. org / 10.1071 / AJZS 061

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Vespidae

SubFamily

Polistinae

Tribe

Ropalidiini

Genus

Ropalidia