Ropalidia variegata ( Smith, 1852 )

Bui, Hoa Thi Quynh, Tran, Ngat Thi, Bozdoğan, Hakan & Nguyen, Lien Thi Phuong, 2020, Additional knowledge respecting taxonomy of the social wasp genus Ropalidia (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Polistinae) from Vietnam, with new records of three species and an updated key to species, Zootaxa 4722 (1), pp. 34-40 : 34-40

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Ropalidia variegata ( Smith, 1852) View in CoL

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Epipona variegata Smith, 1852 , Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (2) 9: 48, female—“Poona” [ India] (London).

Icaria variegata ; de Saussure, 1854, Ét. Fam. Vesp. 2: 237, pl. 4, fig. 3a (nest) [error: “La China ”].

Icaria pendula Smith, 1857 , Cat. Hym. Br. Mus. 5: 98, female—“ India (Bareily)” (London).

Ropalidia variegata View in CoL ; Bequaert, 1918, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 39: 247.

Ropalidia variegata variegata ; van der Vecht, 1941, Treubia 18: 112 (key), 154 (distr.).

This species was recorded from two provinces in the northwest and is newly recorded from Vietnam.

Material examined: Dien Bien: 2 females, Muong Nhe NR, 22°18’21.1’’N, 102°23’47.0’’E, 23.VII.2009, LTP Nguyen , PH Pham & J Kojima; Son La GoogleMaps : 1 female, Co Ma, Thuan Chau, 1200 m, 5.VI.2008, LTP Nguyen & PH Pham .

Distribution: Pakistan; India: Kashmir, Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Bihar, West Bengal, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala; Nepal; Myanmar; Malaysia; Indonesia: Sulawesi; Vietnam (new record); China.

References

Bequaert, J. C. (1918) A revision of the Vespidae of the Belgian Congo based on the collection of the American Museum Congo expedition, with a list of Ethiopian diplopterous wasps. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 39, 1 - 384.

Smith, F. (1852) Descriptions of some hymenopterous insects captured in India, with notes on their economy, by Ezra T. Downes, Esq., who presented them to the Honourable the East India Company. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 2, 9, 44 - 50.

Smith, F. (1857) Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part 5. Vespidae. Taylor & Francis, London, 147 pp.

Vecht, J. van der (1941) The Indo-Australian species of the genus Ropalidia (= Icaria) (Hym., Vespidae) (first part). Treubia, 18, 103 - 190.

Figures

FIGURES 1–8. Figs. 1–2. Ropalidia binghami, female. 1. Head, frontal view. 2. Habitus. Figs. 3–4. Ropalidia parartifex, female. 1. Head, frontal view. 2. Habitus. Figs. 5–6. Ropalidia sumatrae, female. 1. Head, frontal view. 2. Habitus. Figs. 7–8. Ropalidia variegata, female. 1. Head, frontal view. 2. Habitus. Scale: 1mm