Species Ropalidia gregaria (Saussure, 1854)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Icaria gregaria Saussure, H. de 1854. 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 97-256 pls 9-12, 14-18, 20-24, 27-33. [for publication date Griffin, F.J. 1939. On the dates of publication of Saussure (H. de): Etudes sur la famille des Vespides 1–3, 1852–1858. Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History 1: 211–212 (pages and plates published)] [236].

  Type data:

   Lectotype GMNH ♀ adult, Australia (as Nouvelle Hollande).

  Subsequent designation references:

  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] [5].
• Ropalidia variegata interrupta van der Vecht, J. 1941. The Indo-Australian species of the genus Ropalidia (=Icaria) (Hym., Vespidae) (First Part). Treubia 18(1): 103-190 [Date published 31/Aug/1941] [158].

  Type data:

   Holotype MCZ ♀ adult, Thursday Is., QLD.
• Ropalidia mutabilis torresiana Richards, O.W. 1978. The Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 61: 1-132.

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC Numbers not provided Female, Iron Range, QLD.
  Paratype(s) ANIC Numbers not provided Female, Cape York, Somerset, QLD; NMV Numbers not provided 2 females, Torres Straits, Prince of Wales Island.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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] [6]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), 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. 2000. Notes on 'types' of the Australian species of the Ropalidia interrupta complex (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Polistinae). Australian Entomologist 27(2): 33-36 [33] (notes on the types of Ropalidia variegata interrupta)

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