254) Ropalidia sumatrae (Weber, 1801)

Vespa sumatrae Weber, 1801: 103 . Type data:? ZMB. Type locality: “ Sumatra ” (Indonesia).

Vespa mutillata Illiger, 1802: 189 . Type data: ZMB. Type locality: “ Sumatra ” (Indonesia).

Polistes pubescens Fabricius, 1804: 279 . Type data: UZMC. Type locality: “ Sumatra ” (Indonesia).

Eumenes formicaria Fabricius, 1804: 288 . Type data: Female, male, UZMC. Type locality: “America meridionali”.

Anthreneida coronata White, 1841: 321 . Type data: BMNH.

Icaria speciosa de Saussure, 1855: 374 . Type data: Male, UZMC. Type locality: “ Sumatra ” (Indonesia).

Icaria lugubris Smith, 1858: 115 .

Icharia [!] marangensis Gribodo, 1892: 243. Type data: Female, MSNG. Type locality: “ Marang (Sumatra) and Perek (Malacca)” .

Icaria rufinoda Cameron, 1904d: 121 . Type data: Female, BMNH. Type locality: Singapore.

Ropalidia sumatrae van der Vecht, 1941: 104 .

Ropalidia sumatrae sumatrae van der Vecht, 1962: 35 .

Ropalidia krishna Dover and Rao, 1922: 246 .

Ropalidia lugubris; Dover, 1925: 302.

Ropalidia sumatrae lugubris; van der Vecht, 1941: 104, 185.

Distribution. India: West Bengal. Elsewhere: China; Indonesia; Malaysia; Myanmar; Singapore; Thailand; Vietnam. (Jonathan et al. 1996, Jonathan et al. 2000a, Kojima et al. 2007, Nugroho et al. 2012, Pham 2014, Tan et al. 2014a, Pham & Li 2015, Girish Kumar et al. 2017a, Bui et al. 2019).