Species Ropalidia gracilenta Richards, 1978
- Ropalidia (Icariola) gracilenta Richards, O.W. 1978. The Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 61: 1-132 [98].
Type data:
Holotype AM K69363 ♀ adult, North Creek near Ballina, NSW.
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Only published localities Stradbroke Is., Fraser Is., Mackay, ?Coen, near Lockerbie and near Ballina.
IBRA
NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), 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)
Kojima, J. 1987. The male of Ropalidia gracilenta Richards (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), with notes on the female and a nest. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 26(2): 149-151 [Date published 29/05/1987] (description of male, redescription of female, nest)
Kojima, J. 1999. Taxonomic notes on Australian Ropalidia Guérin-Méneville, 1831 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Polistinae). Entomological Science 2(3): 367-377 [368] (distribution)
History of changes
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