256) Ropalidia variegata (Smith, 1852)

Epipona variegata Smith, 1852a: 48 . Type data: Female, RMNH. Type locality: Pune, Maharashtra, India. Icaria variegata; de Saussure, 1854: 237. Icaria pendula Smith, 1857: 98 . Ropalidia variegata; Bequaert, 1918: 247. Ropalidia variegata variegata; van der Vecht, 1941: 112, 154. Ropalidia pendula; Richards 1978: 58. Ropalidia (Anthreneida) variegate variegate; Das & Gupta, 1989: 144. Distribution. India: Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Gujarat, Haryana, Jammu & Kashmir, Karnataka,

Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh,

West Bengal. Elsewhere: China; Indonesia; Malaysia; Myanmar; Nepal; Pakistan. (Yamane & Yamane 1979,

Das & Gupta 1989, Jonathan et al. 1996, Gupta 1997, Gusenleitner 2006, Kojima et al. 2007, Kundu et al. 2010,

Nugroho et al. 2012, Girish Kumar & Sharma 2014a, Pham 2014, Tan et al. 2014a, Girish Kumar & Sharma

2015b, Girish Kumar et al. 2017 a, Rafi et al. 2017, Girish Kumar et al. 2019b, Bui et al. 2019).