Ropalidia flavopicta
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Ordo: Hymenoptera
Familia: Vespidae
Genus: Ropalidia
Name
Ropalidia flavopicta (Smith, 1857) – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Icaria flavopicta Smith, 1857: 99. Type locality: Borneo.
- Ropalidia flavopicta; Bequaert 1918[1]: 246.
- Ropalidia flavopicta flavopicta; van der Vecht 1962[2]: 42.
Specimens examined
MALAYSIA: 1 ♂ (RMNH), S. Sabah, near Long Pa Sia, c 1010 m, 25.xi.–8.xii.1987, Mal. trap, C van Achterberg; 1 ♂ (RMNH), S. Sabah, Beaufort, 0°20'S, 115°43'E, 1.iv.1987, J van Tol & J Huisman; 1 ♀ (RMNH), Sabah, Brumas NBT, 23–27.iv.1973, KM Guichard. INDONESIA: 1 ♀ (RMNH), W. Sumatra, Padangpanjang, 1.v.1988, 0°30'S, 100°26'E, R Hensen (labelled Ropalidia flavopicta (Smith, 1857) by J. Kojima in 1996).
Remarks
No specimens from China were available in the present study, but this species was reported from China by Liu (1936–37)[3]. Van der Vecht (1962)[2] recognized eight subspecies of Ropalidia flavopicta. The identification characters of the species Ropalidia flavopicta were not well enough defined before Kojima (1982[4], 1996a[5]) re-examined the eight subspecies and concluded that eight valid species are involved. Therefore, the presence in China needs reconfirmation.
Distribution
China (Hong Kong); Borneo; Malay Peninsula; Sumatra; Vietnam. (Liu 1936–37[3], van der Vecht 1962[2], Kojima 1996a[5], Kojima and Carpenter 1997[6] and updated to 2006, Nguyen et al. 2006[7])
Taxon Treatment
- Tan, J; Van Achterberg, K; Chen, X; 2014: Pictorial key to species of the genus Ropalidia Guérin-Méneville, 1831 (Hymenoptera, Vespidae) from China, with description of one new species ZooKeys, 391: 1-35. doi
Other References
- ↑ Bequaert J (1918) A revision of the Vespidae of the Belgian Congo based on the collection of the American Museum Congo expedition, with a list of Ethiopian diplopterous wasps. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 39: 1-384.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 van der Vecht J (1962) The Indo-Australian species of the genus Ropalidia (Icaria) (Hymenoptera,Vespidae) (second part). Zoologische Verhandelingen 57: 1-72.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Liu C (1936-1937) A bibliographic and synonymic catalogue of the Vespidae of China, with a cross-referring index for the genera and species. Peking Natural History Bulletin, Vol. II, Part 3, 205–232.
- ↑ Kojima J (1982) Taxonomic revision of the subgenus Icarielia of the genus Ropalidia (Vespidae) in the Philippines. Kontyû 50: 108-124.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Kojima J (1996a) Taxonomy of the Ropalidia flavopicta-complex (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Polistinae). Zoologische Mededelingen 70: 325-347.
- ↑ Kojima J, Carpenter J (1997) Catalog of species in the polistine tribe Ropalidiini (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). American Museum Novitates 3199: 1-96.
- ↑ Nguyen L, Kojima J, Saito F, Carpenter J (2006) Vespidae (Hymenoptera) of Vietnam 3: Synoptic key to Vietnamese species of the polistine genus Ropalidia, with notes on taxonomy and distribution. Entomological Science 9(1): 93-107. doi: 10.1111/j.1479-8298.2006.00157.x
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