Species Ropalidia darwini Richards, 1978

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ropalidia (Icariola) darwini Richards, O.W. 1978. The Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 61: 1-132 [72].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM K69358 ♀ adult, Milners Swamp, NT.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Only published localities Mitchell Plateau, Milners Swamp, Cahills Crossing (East Alligator River) and Darwin.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

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. 1999. Taxonomic notes on Australian Ropalidia Guérin-Méneville, 1831 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Polistinae). Entomological Science 2(3): 367-377 [369] (distribution)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
07-Aug-2012		25-Jul-2012	MODIFIED
		25-Jul-2012	MODIFIED