Ropalidia romandi, (Le Guillou)

Carpenter, James M. & Brown, Graham R., 2022, Catalogue of the Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), Zootaxa 5214 (4), pp. 451-495 : 468-469

romandi (Le Guillou)

Polistes Romandi Le Guillou, 1841a: 322 ; 1841b: 325, female - “ Australie Sept.” (Paris).

Icaria cabeti de Saussure, 1853: 26 , pl. 4 Fig. 2, pl. 5 Fig. 2, female - “La Tasmanie ” (lectotype Paris). - Froggatt, 1892: 232 (cat.). - Dalla Torre, 1894: 118 (cabetii [!]; cat.); 1904: 73 (cat.). - du Buysson, 1913 [1911]: 229 (compared to R. lefebvrei (Le Guillou)) . - Richards 1978: 111 (designation of lectotype). - Kojima, 1999b: 367, 375 (syn. of romandi (Le Guillou)) ; 2001a: 4 (notes on types).

Icaria romandi ; de Saussure, 1853: 41. - Smith, 1957: 96 (cat.). - Froggatt, 1892: 232 (cat.). - Dalla Torre, 1894: 120 (romandii [!]; cat.); 1904: 74 (cat.). - du Buysson, 1913 [1911]: 229 (compared to R. lefebvrei (Le. Guillou)) .

Ropalidia cabeti ; Tillyard, 1925: 297 (nest). - Mackeown, 1942: 190 ( Rhopalidia [!]; nest). - van der Vecht, 1968b: 418, Fig. 3d (morphology).

Ropalidia romandi romandi ; Richards, 1978: 59 (list), 63, 65 (key), 109 (in subgenus Icarielia ; female, male), 129 (key). - Cardale, 1985: 217 (in subgenus Icarielia ; cat.). - Borsato, 1994 [1993]: 251 (N. T.). - Kojima, 1996b: 328, Figs 10, 23. - Kojima & Carpenter, 1997a: 50 (cat.). - Brown, 2009: 30 (North Coast).

Ropalidia romandi cabeti ; Richards 1978: 54, 59 (list), 63 (key), 65 (larva in key), 110 (in subgenus Icarielia ; female, male; biology; nest). - Cardale, 1985: 217 (in subgenus Icarielia ; cat.). - Kojima, 1987a: 146, Figs 68–79 (larva). - Field & Darby, 1991: 195 (screened for biocontrol agent Sphecophaga vesparum ). - Borsato, 1994 [1993]: 251 (Qld.). - Yamane & Itô, 1994: 145 (nest). - Macalintal & Starr, 1996: table 1 (in subgenus Icarielia ; morphology). - Kojima & Carpenter, 1997a: 49 (cat.). - Shima et al., 2000: 73–79 (caste differences).

Ropalidia romandi ; Itô, 1990: 69–70 (in subgenus Icarielia ; ethology). - Jeanne, 1991: 203, 213, 225 (colony population). - Spradbery, 1991b: 353 (colony population). - Kojima, 1993a: 4 (biology). - Naumann, 1993, in Naumann et al.: 179 (distr.). - Itô, 1993: 81, 85, 86, 87, 132 (in subgenus Icarielia ; ethology). - Kojima, 1993c: 835 (ethology); 1994a: 1 (ethology); 1994b: 45 (ethology); 1996a: 73–75 (ethology); 1996b: 328, Figs 10, 23; 1996d: 411 (colony cycle). - Yamane, 1996:10– 15 (nest). - Macalintal & Starr, 1996: table 2 (in subgenus Icarielia ; morphology). - Wenzel, 1998: 26, Fig. 22E (nest). - Carpenter, 1999: 37 (note on type). - Kojima, 1999b: 367, 375 (syn.: I. cabeti (de Saussure) ; N. T., Qld.); 1999c: 383 (key), 387 (distr.), Figs 44, 47, 53, 55; 2000c: 332–338 (caste differences). - Kojima & Tsuchida, 2000: 65-72 (ethology). - Tsuchida et al. . 2000: 113–116 (colony structure). - Zhu et al., 2000: 324–338 (microsatellites). - Fukuda et al., 2003: 37–47 (caste differences). - Henshaw et al., 2003: 641–643 (microsatellites). - Saito & Kojima, 2005b: 273 (N. S. W. specimens “could have been incorrectly labeled rather than being strays”). - Wild & Hall, 2010: 113–114 (stylopization). - Carpenter & Glare, 2010: 2 (outgroup).

Distribution: N coastal, NE coastal, N Gulf; N. T., Qld.