Ropalidia gracilis, (Smith)

Carpenter, James M. & Brown, Graham R., 2022, Catalogue of the Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), Zootaxa 5214 (4), pp. 451-495 : 462

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scientific name

Ropalidia gracilis
status

 

gracilis (Smith) View in CoL

Icaria gracilis Smith, 1859: 167 , female - “Aru” (Oxford); 1863 [1864]b: 138 (distr.); 1865: 90 (list); 1871: 380 (cat.). - Dalla Torre, 1894: 119 (cat.); 1904: 73 (cat. [error: year of publication 1868]).

Icaria deceptor Smith, 1863 View in CoL [ 1864]a: 42, female - “Mysol” (Oxford); 1863 [1864]b: 138 (distr.); 1871: 380 (cat.) - Dalla Torre, 1894: 118 (cat.); 19049: 73 (cat.). - Cheesman, 1952: 3, 18 (syn. of R. gracilis Smith ). - Kojima, 2001b: 36 (synonymy confirmed).

Ropalidia gracilis View in CoL ; Bequaert, 1932: 50 (gracillis [!]; “probablement un Parapolybia View in CoL ”). - Cheesman, 1952: 3, 18 (syn.: I. deceptor Smith View in CoL ; redescription of type; distr.). - Richards, 1978: 58, 61 (key), 99 (in subgenus Icariola ; redescription). - Kojima & Carpenter, 1997a: 26 (cat.). - Kojima, 2001b: 36, 56 (syn.: I. deceptor Smith View in CoL ). - Nugroho et al., 2012 [2011]: 151 (list).

Ropalidia deceptor View in CoL ; Bequaert, 1932: 50. - Richards, 1978: 53 (nest), 58, 61 (key), 99, Figs 20, 34 (in subgenus Icariola ; redescription; male, nest; Qld.). - Cardale, 1985: 214 (in subgenus Icariola ; cat.). - Naumann, 1993, in Naumann et al.: 179 (distr.). - Kojima & Carpenter, 1997a: 18 (cat.). - Kojima, 1999b: 368, Figs 5–6, 9–10, 12 (Qld.); 1999c: 380 (key), 384 (distr.), Figs 2, 9, 12–13.

Distribution: NE coastal, N Gulf; Qld.; also Indonesia.

Bequaert, J. (1932) Aculeata (Vespidae), genre Ropalidia. Resultats Scientifiques du Voyage aux Indes Orientales Neerlandaises de LL. AA. RR. le Prince et la Princesse Leopold de Belgique, 4 (5), 47 - 51.

Cardale, J. C. (1985) Vespoidea and Sphecoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia, 2, 150 - 303.

Cheesman, L. E. (1952) Ropalidia of Papuasia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 12, 5, 1 - 26, https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222935208654259

Dalla Torre, K. W. (1894) Catalogus Hymenopterorum. Vol. 9. Vespidae (Diploptera). G. Engelmann, Leipzig, 181 pp.

Kojima, J. & Carpenter, J. M. (1997 a) Catalog of species in the polistine tribe Ropalidiini (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). American Museum Novitates, 3199, 1 - 96.

Kojima, J. (1999 b) Taxonomic notes on Australian Ropalidia Guerin-Meneville, 1831 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Polistinae). Entomological Science, 2, 367 - 377.

Kojima, J. (2001 b) Ropalidia wasps (Insecta: Hymenoptera; Vespidae, Polistinae) in New Guinea and its adjacent islands (first part). Natural History Bulletin of Ibaraki University, 5, 31 - 60.

Naumann, I. D., Edwards, E. D., Weir, T. A. & Rentz, D. C. F. (1993) Insects of the Heathlands Area, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland. Cape York Peninsula Scientific Expedition Wet Season 1992 Report, 2, 173 - 203.

Nugroho, H., Kojima, J. & Carpenter, J. M. (2012 [ 2011 ]) Checklist of vespid species (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Vespidae) occurring in Indonesian Archipelago. Treubia, 38, 71 - 186.

Richards, O. W. (1978) The Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Australian Journal of Zoology, Supplementary Series, 61, 1 - 132. https: // doi. org / 10.1071 / AJZS 061

Smith, F. (1859) Catalogue of hymenopterous insects collected by Mr. A. R. Wallace at the islands of Aru and Key. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Zoology, 3, 132 - 178. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.1859. tb 00077. x

Smith, F. (1863 [ 1864 ] a) Catalogue of hymenopterous insects collected by Mr. A. R. Wallace in the islands of Mysol, Ceram, Waigiou, Bouro and Timor. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Zoology, 7, 6 - 48. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.1863. tb 02085. x

Smith, F. (1864) On the construction of hexagonal cells by bees and wasps. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, Series 3, 2, 131 - 142, pl. XIII. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 2311.1864. tb 00098. x

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Vespidae

SubFamily

Polistinae

Tribe

Ropalidiini

Genus

Ropalidia