Species Ropalidia romandi (Le Guillou, 1841)
- Polistes romandi Le Guillou, E.J.F. 1841. Description de 20 espèces nouvelles. appartenant à diverses familles d'Hyménoptères. Revue de Zoologie, Paris 4: 322-325 [322].
Type data:
Holotype MNHP ♀ adult, N Australia (as 'Aust. sept.'). - Icaria cabeti Saussure, H. de 1853. Études sur la Famille des Vespides. 2. Monographie des Guêpes Sociales, ou de la Tribu des Vespiens, ouvrage faisant suite à la Monographies des Guêpes Solitaires. Paris : Masson 1-96 pls 2-8, 13. [26 pl. iv fig. 2, pl. v fig. 2].
Type data:
Lectotype MNHP ♀ adult, TAS (doubtful).Subsequent designation references:
Richards, O.W. 1978. The Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 61: 1-132 [110].
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Kojima, J. 1999. Taxonomic notes on Australian Ropalidia Guérin-Méneville, 1831 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Polistinae). Entomological Science 2(3): 367-377 [375]
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Possibly the NSW specimens are strays, but common in QLD.
IBRA
NSW, NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)
Ecological Descriptors
Adult: volant.
Larva: predator, sedentary.
Extra Ecological Information
Social, nests of 'paper'.
General References
Carpenter, J.M. & Brown, G.R. 2022. Catalogue of the Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Zootaxa 5214(4): 451–495
Kojima, J. 1987. Descriptions of mature larvae of eight Australian Polistinae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 26(2): 141-148 [Date published 29/05/1987] [146] (larval description and illustrations as Ropalidia romandi cabeti)
Kojima, J. 1993. Violent behaviour by workers in an Old World swarm-founding paper wasp, Ropalidia romandi (Hymenoptera, Vespidae). Japanese Journal of Entomology 61(4): 835-838 [Date published 25/12/1993] (behaviour)
Kojima, J. 1994. Evidence for an alarm pheromone in Ropalidia romandi (Le Guillou) (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 33(1): 45-47 [Date published 28/02/1994] (presence of an alarm pheromone)
Kojima, J. 1996. Colony cycle of an Australian swarm-founding paper wasp, Ropalidia romandi (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Insectes Sociaux 43: 411-420 (biology at Atherton, QLD)
Kojima, J. 1996. Meconium egestion by larvae of Ropalidia Guérin (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) without adult aid, with a note on the evolution of meconium extraction behaviour in the tribe Ropalidiini. Australian Journal of Entomology 35(1): 73-75 [Date published 29/02/1996] (behaviour)
Kojima, J. 1999. Taxonomic notes on Australian Ropalidia Guérin-Méneville, 1831 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Polistinae). Entomological Science 2(3): 367-377 [375] (distribution)
Kojima, J. 2001. Taxonomic notes on types of the social wasp tribe Ropalidiini (Insecta: Hymenoptera; Vespidae, Polistinae) housed mainly in the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Genève. Natural History Bulletin of Ibaraki University 5: 1-22 [Date published 9/Feb/2001] [4] (notes on lectotype and paralectotypes)
Tsuchida, K., Itô, Y., Katada, S. & Kojima, J. 2000. Genetical and morphological colony structure of the Australian swarm-founding polistine wasp, Ropalidia romandi (Hymenoptera, Vespidae). Insectes Sociaux 47: 113-116 (biology)
Yamane, S. & Itô, Y. 1994. Nest architecture of the Australian paper wasp Ropalidia romandi cabeti, with a note on its developmental process (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Psyche (Cambridge) 101(3–4): 145-158 (nest as Ropalidia romandi cabeti)
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