Ropalidia Guérin-Méneville, 1831

Siddiqui, Junaid Ali, Bodlah, Imran, Carpenter, James M., Naeem, Muhammad, Ahmad, Munir & Bodlah, Muhammad Adnan, 2015, Vespidae (Hymenoptera) of the Pothwar region of Punjab, Pakistan, Zootaxa 3914 (5), pp. 501-524 : 515

Genus Ropalidia Guérin-Méneville, 1831

Ropalidia Guérin-Méneville, 1831 : pl. 9, fig. 8. Type species: Ropalidia maculiventris Guérin-Méneville, 1831 , by monotypy.

Anthreneida White, 1841: 321 . Type species: Anthreneida coronata White, 1841 [= Vespa sumatrae Weber ], by monotypy.

Icaria de Saussure, 1853: 22, pls. 4 and 5. Type species: “ I. maculiventris (Guer.) ” [= Ropalidia maculiventris Guérin- Méneville, 1831], by subsequent designation of Bingham 1897: 385.

Paraicaria Gribodo, 1892: 248 . Type species: Paraicaria bicolor Gribodo, 1892 [= Ropalidia bicolorata van der Vecht, replacement name], by monotypy.

Icariastrum Dalla Torre, 1904: 72, name for group I of genus Icaria de Saussure in de Saussure, 1862: 132. Type species: Icaria opulenta Smith, 1857 , by subsequent designation of Meade-Waldo, 1913: 46.

Icarielia Dalla Torre, 1904: 72 , name for group II of genus Icaria de Saussure in de Saussure, 1862: 132. Type species: Icaria flavopicta Smith , by subsequent designation of Meade-Waldo, 1913: 46.

Icariola Dalla Torre, 1904: 72 , name for group III of genus Icaria de Saussure in de Saussure, 1862: 133. Type species: Icaria gregaria de Saussure, 1853, by subsequent designation of Meade-Waldo 1913: 46.

Polistratus Cameron, 1906: 59 . Type species: Polistratus cariniscutis Cameron, 1906 [= Icaria brunnea Smith ], by monotypy.

Zuba Cheesman, 1952: 2 , 3 (key), 23, as subgenus of Ropalidia (14 species). Unavailable: no type species designated.

Zuba Richards, 1978: 57 ; validation by type selection of Zuba Cheesman. Type species: Icaria gregaria de Saussure, 1853, by original designation.

The wasps of genus Ropalidia are usually small in size with distinct colours and petiole shape. This genus has about 180 species in Africa and the Indo-Australian region (Kojima & Carpenter 1997).