Ropalidia sumatrae ( Weber, 1801 )

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 sumatrae ( Weber, 1801) View in CoL

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Vespa Sumatrae Weber, 1801 View in CoL , Observ. Entomol. Kiliae: 103—“ Sumatra ” (type depository unknown).

Ropalidia sumatrae View in CoL ; van der Vecht, 1941, Treubia 18: 104 (syn.: Icaria marangensis Gribodo , Vespa mutillata Illiger View in CoL , Polistes pubescens Fabricius , I. rufinoda Cameron View in CoL , Eumenes formicaria Fabricius View in CoL , Anthreneida coronata White , I. speciosa de Saussure View in CoL ), 113 (key), 181 (taxonomy; female, male; fig.; distr.).

Ropalidia sumatrae sumatrae ; van der Vecht, 1962, Zool. Verh., Leiden 57: 35, pls. 1 and 3 (in subgenus Anthreneida ; ethology).

Kojima and Carpenter (1997) in their catalog of species in the polistine tribe Ropalidiini stated that Ropalidia sumatrae occuring in Vietnam as they cited van der Vecht (1941: 181): Indo China: 1 female, Haut Mekong, Vien Ponkha, May ‚18, R. V. DE SALVAZA {British Museum}, but that local name was not Vietnamese name, probably it was a local name in Laos. Pham and Li (2015) also listed the species as occuring in Vietnam, but give no more information; maybe they followed Kojima and Carpenter (1997). In our study, the species was recorded in one province in the central high land of Vietnam (Tay Nguyen), which confirmed the occurrence of the species in Vietnam after 20 years of doubtful information.

Material examined: Gia Lai: 2 females, Ka Bang, Konpne, Kon Ka Kinh NP, 14°23’22.9’’N, 108°20’27.5’’E, 847 m, 16.VII.2012, LTP Nguyen GoogleMaps .

Distribution: India: West Bengal; Myanmar; Thailand; Vietnam; China: Yunnan; Malaysia; Singapore; Indonesia: Kalimantan, Bangka, Sumatra.

References

Pham, P. H. & Li, T. J. (2015) A first list of vespid wasps from Vietnam (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Russian Entomological Journal, 24 (2), 133 - 144. https: // doi. org / 10.15298 / rusentj. 24.2.05

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

Vecht, J. van der (1962) The Indo-Australian species of the genus Ropalidia (Icaria) (Hymenoptera, Vespidae) (second part). Zoologische Verhandelingen, 57, 1 - 72.

Weber, F. (1801) Observationes Entomologicae, Continentes Novorum quae Condidit Generum Characteres, et Nuper Detectarum Specierum Descriptiones. impensis Bibliopolii Academici Novi, Kiliae, XII + 117 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 8639

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