Ropalidia taiwana Sonan 1935

Kojima, Jun-Ichi, Saito, Fuki & Nguyen, Lien Thi Phuong, 2011, On the species-group taxa of Taiwanese social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) described and / or treated by J. Sonan, Zootaxa 2920, pp. 42-64 : 51

Ropalidia taiwana Sonan 1935 [ Ropalidia taiwana Sonan 1935 ]

Sonan (1935a) described this species based on the holotype Ƥ and 5 Ƥ and 1 3 paratypes. All these type specimens are in TARI and their label data given below agreed with those given in the original description.

Type material. HOLOTYPE Ƥ: “ Formosa / Shinchiku, -18. / VII 1-30. / J. Sonan, / K. Miyake”, “ Ropalidia / taiwana / Sonan / DET. J. SONAN ”, “96”, Type label. PARATYPES: 1 Ƥ, same collection label as holotype; 1 Ƥ (possibly pre-adult pupa taken from a nest) “Hori / 20.XI.1932 / Col. J. Sonan”; 1 Ƥ “Hassenzan / 23.X.1932 / K. Nomura”; 1 3 “Horisha / 2.XII.1916 / Col. T. Shiraki”; 1 Ƥ “ Formosa / Koshun, 1918 / IV 25–V 25. / J. Sonan / K. Miyake, / M. Yoshino”; 1 Ƥ “Urai / VII – 1931 / Col. J. Sonan”.