Genus Parapolybia de Saussure, 1854

Parapolybia de Saussure 1854: 207; von Schulthess 1913: 152; van der Vecht 1966: 5, 21; Gadagkar 1991: 149. Type species. Polybia indica de Saussure, 1854, by subsequent designation (Bingham 1897: 382).

Parapolybia is one of the four genera of the tribe Ropalidiini . It differs from other ropalidiine genera in the combination of the following characters: female and male antenna with respectively ten and 11 flagellomeres; pronotal carina incomplete, obliterated ventrally; pronotum with pretegular carina; mesepisternum with scrobal sulcus; T1 much longer than T2 width, posteriorly more or less distinctly swollen dorsally and laterally.