Ropalidia Guérin-Méneville, 1831

Siddiqui, Junaid Ali, Bodlah, Imran, Carpenter, James M., Naeem, Muhammad, Ahmad, Munir & Bodlah, Muhammad Adnan, 2015, Vespidae (Hymenoptera) of the Pothwar region of Punjab, Pakistan, Zootaxa 3914 (5), pp. 501-524 : 515

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scientific name	Ropalidia Guérin-Méneville, 1831
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Genus Ropalidia Guérin-Méneville, 1831 View in CoL View at ENA

Ropalidia Guérin-Méneville, 1831 View in CoL : pl. 9, fig. 8. Type species: Ropalidia maculiventris Guérin-Méneville, 1831 View in CoL , by monotypy.

Anthreneida White, 1841: 321 . Type species: Anthreneida coronata White, 1841 [= Vespa sumatrae Weber ], by monotypy.

Icaria View in CoL de Saussure, 1853: 22, pls. 4 and 5. Type species: “ I. maculiventris (Guer.) View in CoL ” [= Ropalidia maculiventris View in CoL Guérin- Méneville, 1831], by subsequent designation of Bingham 1897: 385.

Paraicaria Gribodo, 1892: 248 View in CoL . Type species: Paraicaria bicolor Gribodo, 1892 View in CoL [= Ropalidia bicolorata View in CoL van der Vecht, replacement name], by monotypy.

Icariastrum Dalla Torre, 1904: 72, name for group I of genus Icaria View in CoL de Saussure in de Saussure, 1862: 132. Type species: Icaria opulenta Smith, 1857 , by subsequent designation of Meade-Waldo, 1913: 46.

Icarielia Dalla Torre, 1904: 72 , name for group II of genus Icaria View in CoL de Saussure in de Saussure, 1862: 132. Type species: Icaria flavopicta Smith View in CoL , by subsequent designation of Meade-Waldo, 1913: 46.

Icariola Dalla Torre, 1904: 72 , name for group III of genus Icaria View in CoL de Saussure in de Saussure, 1862: 133. Type species: Icaria gregaria de Saussure, 1853, by subsequent designation of Meade-Waldo 1913: 46.

Polistratus Cameron, 1906: 59 . Type species: Polistratus cariniscutis Cameron, 1906 [= Icaria brunnea Smith ], by monotypy.

Zuba Cheesman, 1952: 2 , 3 (key), 23, as subgenus of Ropalidia View in CoL (14 species). Unavailable: no type species designated.

Zuba Richards, 1978: 57 ; validation by type selection of Zuba Cheesman. Type species: Icaria gregaria de Saussure, 1853, by original designation.

The wasps of genus Ropalidia View in CoL are usually small in size with distinct colours and petiole shape. This genus has about 180 species in Africa and the Indo-Australian region (Kojima & Carpenter 1997).