Ropalidia malaisei van der Vecht, 1962

Tan, Jiang-Li, Van Achterberg, Kees & Chen, Xue-Xin, 2014, Pictorial key to species of the genus Ropalidia Guerin-Meneville, 1831 (Hymenoptera, Vespidae) from China, with description of one new species, ZooKeys 391, pp. 1-35 : 18-19

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scientific name	Ropalidia malaisei van der Vecht, 1962
status	rec. n.

Treatment

Ropalidia malaisei van der Vecht, 1962 View in CoL rec. n. Figure 1G

Ropalidia malaisei van der Vecht, 1962: 42, 65; Das and Gupta 1983: 427; 1989: 113, 151; Gusenleitner 1996: 16; Kojima 1996a: 325, 328, 340. Type locality: Myanmar.

Specimens examined.

MYANMAR: 4 ♂ (RMNH), N. East Burma: Sadon, 1200 m, 28. vi– 5.vii.1934, R. Malaise (paratypes of Ropalidia malaisei ). CHINA: 1 ♀ (NWUM), Longmen, Shangyong, Yunnan, 26.ix.2010, JL Tan; 20 ♀ (ZJUH, RMNH), Xishuangbanna Forestry Park, Yunan, 31.vii.2003 (no. 20045871, -74, -76, -77-82 (-79 in RMNH), -84-91, -93, -95), Q Jiang.

Remarks.

The yellow stripes of the mesoscutum are lacking in some individuals.

Distribution.

China (Yunnan), Myanmar. ( Kojima and Carpenter 1997 and updated to 2006).