Genus Ropalidia Guérin-Méneville, 1831
- Ropalidia Guérin-Méneville, F.É. 1831. Insectes. pls 1–21. In, Duperrey, L.I. (ed.). Voyage autour du monde, exécuté par ordre du Roi, sur la corvette de sa Majest., La Coquille, pendant les années 1822, 1823, 1824 et 1825 sous le ministère de S.E.M. Le Marquis de Clermont-Tonnerre, et publié sous les auspices de son Excellence M. Le Cte De Chabrol, Ministre de la Marine et des Colonies. Histoire naturelle, zoologie. Paris : A. Bertrand. [Date published 1830-1832] [pl. 9 fig. 8].
Type species:
Ropalidia maculiventris Guérin, 1831 by monotypy. - Rhopalidia Guérin-Méneville, F.É. 1838. Insectes. pp. 57-302 in Lesson, M. (ed.). Voyage Autour du Monde, Exécuté par Ordre du Roi, sur la Corvette de sa Majesté, La Coquille, Pendant les Années 1822, 1823, 1824, et 1825. Zoologie. Paris : Bertrand Vol. ii Pt 2 Div 1 ch. xiii pp. [266] [emendation and description of Ropalidia Guérin, 1831; non Rhopalidia Lepeletier, 1836 suppressed by International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1976. Opinion 1051. Rhopalidia Lepeletier, 1836 (Insecta: Hymenoptera): suppressed under the plenary powers. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 32: 240–241].
Type species:
Icaria maculiventris Guérin, 1831 (=Ropalidia maculiventris Guérin, 1831) by subsequent designation, see Bingham, C.T. 1897. The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Hymenoptera. Wasps and Bees. London : Taylor & Francis Vol. I xxx 579 pp. [385].- Polistratus Cameron, P. 1906. Hymenoptera I [all families except Apidae and Formicidae]. pp. 41-65 in Wichmann, A. (ed.). Nova Guinea, des Résultats de l'Expédition scientifique Néerlandaise à la Nouvelle-Guinée en 1903, sous les auspices de Arthur Wichmann, Chef de l'Expédition. Leiden : E.J. Brill Vol. 5. [59].
Type species:
Polistratus cariniscutis Cameron, 1906 (=Icaria brunnea Smith, 1858) by monotypy. - Icariola Dalla Torre, K.W. von 1904. Hymenoptera. Fam. Vespidae. Genera Insectorum 19: 1-108 [72] [proposed with subgeneric rank in Icaria Saussure, 1853].
Type species:
Icaria gregaria Saussure, 1853 by subsequent designation, see Meade-Waldo, G. 1913. New species of Diploptera in the collection of the British Museum. Part IV. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 11: 44-54 [46]. - Zuba Cheesman, L.E. 1952. Ropalidia of Papuasia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 12 5: 1-26 4 pls [15] [proposed with subgeneric rank in Ropalidia Guérin, 1831; unavailable, no type species designated].
- Icarielia Dalla Torre, K.W. von 1904. Hymenoptera. Fam. Vespidae. Genera Insectorum 19: 1-108 [72] [proposed with subgeneric rank in Icaria Saussure, 1853].
Type species:
Icaria flavopicta Smith, 1857 by subsequent designation, see Meade-Waldo, G. 1913. New species of Diploptera in the collection of the British Museum. Part IV. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 11: 44-54 [46]. - Zuba Richards, O.W. 1978. The Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 61: 1-132 [57] [validation of Zuba Cheesman, 1952 by type selection of Richards, 1978].
Type species:
Icaria gregaria Saussure, 1853 by original designation. - Anthreneida White, A. 1841. Description of a South American wasp which collects honey. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 1 7: 315–322.
Type species:
Anthreneida coronata White, 1841 (=Vespa sumatrae Weber, 1801) by monotypy. - Paraicaria Gribodo, G. 1892. Contribuzioni imenotterologiche sopra alcune specie nuove o poco conosciute di Imenotteri Diplotteri. Nota IV (1). Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 23: 243–300.
Type species:
Paraicaria bicolor Gribodo, 1892 by monotypy. - Icariastrum Dalla Torre, K.W. von 1904. Hymenoptera. Fam. Vespidae. Genera Insectorum 19: 1-108.
Type species:
Icaria opulenta Smith, 1857 by subsequent designation, see Meade-Waldo, G. 1913. II.—New species of Diploptera in the collection of the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of the American Museum of Natural History Series 8 11: 44–54.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Kojima, J. 1997. Abandonment of the subgeneric concept in the Old World polistine genus Ropalidia Guérin-Méneville, 1831 (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Natural History Bulletin of Ibaraki University 1: 93-106 [Date published 13/10/1997] [102] (also see for extended extralimital synonymy)
- Carpenter, J.M. & Brown, G.R. 2022. Catalogue of the Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Zootaxa 5214(4): 451–495
Taxonomic Decision for Subgeneric Arrangement
- Richards, O.W. 1978. The Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 61: 1-132 [56]
Excluded Taxa
- Misidentifications
VESPIDAE: Ropalidia bioculata (Fabricius, 1804) — 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] [8] (originally proposed in Icaria Saussure, 1853, from 'Nova Cambria', is from the Oriental Region)
VESPIDAE: Ropalidia punctum (Fabricius, 1804) — van der Vecht, J. 1958. On some Fabrician types of Indo-Australian the Vespidae (Hymenoptera). Archives Néerlandaises de Zoologie 13(1 Suppl.): 234-247 (originally proposed in Polistes Latreille, 1802, from 'Nova Cambria' is from the Afrotropical Region)
Distribution
States
Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Tropical areas of the Oriental Region, Oceania, Afrotropical Region and Madagascar.
IBRA
ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL) ; NT, WA: Sturt Plateau (STU)
Distribution References
General References
Charnley, H.W. 1973. The value of the propodeal orifice and the phallic capsule in vespid taxonomy (Hymenoptera, Vespidae). Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences 26: 1-79 [40] (male genital morphology of several species)
Gadagkar, R. & Joshi, N.V. 1982. A comparative study of social structure in colonies of Ropalidia [Rhopalidia]. Proceedings of the International Union for the Study of Social Insects 9: 187-191 (colony social structure)
Kojima, J. 1988. A new species of Ropalidia from Madagascar, with descriptions of mature larvae of eight Ropalidia species (Hymenoptera: Vespinae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 61(3): 292-302 [Date published 16/09/1988] (larval descriptions of Madagascan species)
Kojima, J. 1993. Relative abundance of swarm-founding Ropalidia in the eusocial wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) in tropical Australia. New Entomologist 42(1–2): 4-7 (behaviour)
Kojima, J. 1998. Nest construction of Ropalidia fasciata (Hymenoptera, Vespidae). Kontyû 56(1): 169-179 [Date published 25/03/1988] (nest architecture)
Kojima, J. 1999. A key to species and notes on distribution of the Polistine genus Ropalidia Guérin-Méneville, 1831 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Polistinae) in Australia. Entomological Science 2(3): 379-390 (key to Australian species)
Kojima, J. 1999. Male genitalia and antennae in an Old World paper wasp genus Ropalidia Guérin-Méneville, 1831 (Insecta: Hymenoptera; Vespidae, Polistinae). Natural History Bulletin of Ibaraki University 3: 51-68 (male genital morphology)
Kojima, J. 2001. Ropalidia wasps (Insecta: Hymenoptera; Vespidae, Polistinae) in New Guinea and its adjacent islands (first part). Natural History Bulletin of Ibaraki University 5: 31-60 (New Guinea species)
Kojima, J. & Carpenter, J.M. 1997. Catalog of species in the Polistine tribe Ropalidiini (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). American Museum Novitates 3199: 1-96 [Date published 16/05/1997] (catalogue of world species)
Macalintal, E.A. & Starr, C.K. 1996. Comparative morphology of the stinger in the social wasp genus Ropalidia (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Washington 17: 108-115 (morphology of venom apparatus)
Spradbery, J.P. & Kojima, J. 1989. Nest descriptions and colony populations of eleven species of Ropalidia (Hymenoptera, Vespidae) in New Guinea. Japanese Journal of Entomology 57(3): 632-653 [Date published 25/Sept/1989] (nests of New Guinea species)
History of changes
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| 20-Jul-2023 | VESPIDAE | 20-Jul-2023 | MODIFIED | |
| 01-Jun-2021 | VESPOIDEA | 15-Jun-2023 | MODIFIED | |
| 23-Mar-2015 | VESPOIDEA | 20-Jul-2023 | MODIFIED | |
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