236) Ropalidia fasciata (Fabricius, 1804)

Eumenes fasciata Fabricius, 1804: 290 . Type data: Syntype males, UZMC. Type locality: “ Java ” (Indonesia).

Polistes bioculata Fabricius 1804: 278 . Type data: Female, UZMC. Type locality: “nova Cambria”.

Icaria picta de Saussure, 1854: 238 . Type data: Female, MNHN. Type locality: “Le Bengale” (India).

Icaria intermedia Cameron, 1905: 70 . Type data: Lectotype female, ZMA. Type locality: “Tjandi near Semarang”.

Ropalidia fasciata; van der Vecht, 1959 a [1958]: 245.

Material examined. INDIA: Maharashtra: KVK Narayangaon Pune, 24.xi.2016, 8 ♀ & 5 ♂, Coll. Sandesh Gawas ; Bhimashankar Pune, 27.xi.2017, 1 ♀ & 3 ♂, Coll. Sandesh Gawas. Odisha: OUAT Bhubaneshwar, 26.i.2017, 1 ♀, Coll. Sandesh Gawas ; Puri, 30.i.2017, 2 ♀, Coll. Sandesh Gawas.

Distribution. India: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Delhi, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Odisha (new record), Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh. Elsewhere: Bhutan; China (including Hong Kong and Taiwan); Japan; Indonesia; Laos; Malaysia; Myanmar; Nepal; Pakistan; Philippines; Sri Lanka; Thailand; Timor; Vietnam. (Yamane & Yamane 1979, Das & Gupta 1989, Jonathan et al. 2000a, Jonathan et al. 2000b, Jonathan & Kundu 2003, Gusenleitner 2006, Kundu et al. 2006, Nguyen et al. 2006a, Kojima et al. 2007, Kundu et al. 2010, Gusenleitner 2011, Nugroho et al. 2012, Barthélémy et al. 2014, Pham 2014, Tan et al. 2014a, Hatta et al. 2015, Pham & Li 2015, Dorji et al. 2016, Girish Kumar et al. 2017 a, Rafi et al. 2017).