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Ropalidia Guerin-Meneville

  • 1. Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79 th Street, New York, NY 10024, U. S. A.
  • 2. Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, GPO Box 4646, Darwin, NT 0801, Australia. & Visiting Scientist, CSIRO Land and Water, Private Mail Bag 44, Winnellie, NT 0822, Australia. & University Fellow, Research Institute for Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, NT 0909, Australia. thynnini @ outlook. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4101 - 3823

Description

Genus Ropalidia Guérin-Méneville

Ropalidia Guérin-Méneville, 1831: pl. 9, Fig. 8, genus.

Type species: Ropalidia maculiventris Guérin-Méneville, 1831, by monotypy.

Rhopalidia Guérin-Méneville, 1838: 266. Incorrect spelling of Ropalidia Guérin-Méneville. Non Rhopalidia Lepeletier, 1836.

Rhopalia Guérin-Méneville, 1838: 317 (in explanation of plates). Incorrect spelling of Ropalidia GuérinMéneville.

Anthreneida White, 1841: 321, genus.

Type species: Anthreneida coronata White, 1841 [= Vespa sumatrae Weber, 1801], by monotypy.

Icaria de Saussure, 1853: 22, pls. 4 and 5, genus (20 species).

Type species: “ I. maculiventris (Guer.) ” [= Ropalidia maculiventris Guérin-Méneville, 1831], by subsequent designation of Bingham, 1897: 385.

Anthreneidea de Saussure, 1854: 235. Incorrect spelling of Anthreneida White.

Icharia Gribodo, 1892 [1891]: 243. Incorrect spelling of Icaria de Saussure.

Paraicaria Gribodo, 1892 [1891]: 248, genus.

Type species: Paraicaria bicolor Gribodo, 1892 [= Ropalidia bicolorata van der Vecht, 1962, replacement name], by monotypy.

Icariastrum Dalla Torre, 1904: 72, name for group I of genus Icaria de Saussure in de Saussure, 1862: 132 (5 species).

Type species: Icaria opulenta Smith, 1857, by subsequent designation of Meade-Waldo, 1913: 46.

Icarielia Dalla Torre, 1904: 72, name for group II of genus Icaria de Saussure in de Saussure, 1862: 132 (9 species).

Type species: Icaria flavopicta Smith, 1857, by subsequent designation of Meade-Waldo, 1913: 46.

Icariella [!] Dalla Torre, 1904, Index: 96. Incorrect spelling of Icarielia Dalla Torre.

Icariola Dalla Torre, 1904: 72, name for group III of genus Icaria de Saussure in de Saussure, 1862: 133 (11 species).

Type species: Icaria gregaria de Saussure, 1853, by subsequent designation of Meade-Waldo, 1913: 46.

Polistratus Cameron, 1906a: 59, genus.

Type species: Polistratus cariniscutis Cameron, 1906 [= Icaria brunnea Smith, 1858], by monotypy.

Zuba Cheesman, 1952: 2, 3 (key), 23, subgenus of Ropalidia (14 species). Unavailable: no type species designated.

Zuba Richards, 1978: 57; validation by type selection of Zuba Cheesman.

Type species: Icaria gregaria de Saussure, 1853, by original designation.

This genus is also found in the Oriental and Ethiopian Regions.

Notes

Published as part of Carpenter, James M. & Brown, Graham R., 2022, Catalogue of the Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), pp. 451-495 in Zootaxa 5214 (4) on page 460, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5214.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7397617

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Biodiversity

Family
Vespidae
Genus
Ropalidia
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hymenoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Guerin-Meneville
Taxon rank
genus

References

  • Guerin-Meneville, F. E. (1831 - 1838) Insectes. In: Duperrey, L. I., Voyage autour du monde: execute par ordre du roi, sur la corvette de Sa Majeste, la Coquille, pendant les annees 1822, 1823, 1824, et 1825, Zoologie. 2 (2). A. Bertrand, Paris, pp. 57 - 271, Atlas, pls. VIII - IX.
  • Lepeletier de Saint-Fargau, A. L. M. (1836) Histoire Naturelle des Insectes - Hymenopteres. Vol. 1. Roret, Paris, 547 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / t. 173542
  • White, A. (1841) Description of a South American wasp which collects honey. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 1, 7, 315 - 322. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 03745484109442703
  • Bingham, C. T. (1897) The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma Hymenoptera, 1. Wasps and Bees. Taylor and Francis, London, 579 + xxix pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 100738
  • Gribodo, G. (1892 [" 1891 "]) Contribuzioni imenotterologiche sopra alcune specie nuove o poco conosciute di Imenotteri Diplotteri. Nota IV (1). Bollettino della Societa Entomologica Italiana 23, 242 - 300.
  • Vecht, J. van der (1962) The Indo-Australian species of the genus Ropalidia (Icaria) (Hymenoptera, Vespidae) (second part). Zoologische Verhandelingen, 57, 1 - 72.
  • Dalla Torre, K. W. (1904) Hymenoptera Fam. Vespidae. In: Wytsma, P. (Ed.), Genera Insectorum, 19, pp. 108.
  • Saussure, H. de (1862) Sur divers Vespides Asiatiques et Africains du Musee de Leyden. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung, 23 (4 - 6), 177 - 207.
  • Smith, F. (1857) Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum, Part V. Vespidae, 5. Printed by order of the Trustees, London, 147 pp.
  • Meade-Waldo, G. (1913) II. - New species of Diploptera in the collection of the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 8, 11, 44 - 54. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222931308693291
  • Cameron, P. (1906 a) Nova Guinea. Hymenoptera I (All families, except Apidae and Formicidae). in Resultats de l'Expedition Scientifique Neerlandaise a la Nouvelle-Guinee en 1903 sous les auspices de Arthur Wichmann Chef de l'Expedition. Nova Guinea, Zoologie, 5 (1), 41 - 65.
  • Smith, F. (1858) Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects collected at Sarawak, Borneo; Mount Ophir, Malacca; and at Singapore, by A. R. Wallace. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Zoology, 2 (7), 89 - 130. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.1858. tb 02548. x
  • Cheesman, L. E. (1952) Ropalidia of Papuasia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 12, 5, 1 - 26, https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222935208654259
  • 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