238) Ropalidia jacobsoni (du Buysson, 1908)

Icaria jacobsoni du Buysson, 1908: 123 . Type data: Lectotype female, RMNH. Type locality: “aux environs de Batavia [= Jakarta]”.

Ropalidia jacobsoni jacobsoni; Das and Gupta, 1984: 418.

Ropalidia jacobsoni flavoscutellata Das and Gupta, 1989: 146, 147, 160, 171. Type data: Holotype female, NZC. Type locality: Rongooni, Assam, India.

Ropalidia bangalorica Lambert and Narendran, 2005a: 1920 . Type data: Holotype female, DZUC. Type locality: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.

Matrial examined. INDIA: Karnataka: Yelahanka Bengaluru, 28.vi.2017, 3 ♀, Coll. Sandesh Gawas; 4.iv.2016, 3 ♀, Coll. Ashwath & Sandesh; 3.v.2017, 1 ♀, Coll. Ashwath & Sandesh; 20.i.2017, 1 ♀, Coll. Sandesh Gawas; 12.vii.2017, 1 ♀, Coll. Sandesh Gawas; 20.ii.2017, 3 ♀, Coll. Sandesh Gawas.

Distribution. India: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Goa, Gujarat, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal. Elsewhere: Bhutan; Indonesia; Myanmar. (Das & Gupta 1989, Gupta 1997, Kojima et al. 2007, Kundu et al. 2010, Nugroho et al. 2012, Girish Kumar & Sharma 2014a, Girish Kumar & Sharma 2014b, Pham 2014, Girish Kumar & Sharma 2015b, Dorji et al. 2016, Girish Kumar et al. 2017 a, Sheikh et al. 2017).