Species Ropalidia latetergum Richards, 1978

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ropalidia (Polistratus) latetergum Richards, O.W. 1978. The Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 61: 1-132 [69].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV T7676 ♀ adult, Kuranda, QLD.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Only published localities Mossman and Kuranda.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), 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. 1998. Larvae of social wasps (Insecta: Hymenoptera; Vespidae). Natural History Bulletin of Ibaraki University 2: 7-227 [98] (larval description and illustrations)

 

History of changes

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