Ropalidia jacobsoni (du Buysson, 1908 )

Gawas, Sandesh M., Kumar, Girish, Pannure, Arati, Gupta, Ankita & Carpenter, James M., 2020, An annotated distributional checklist of Vespidae (Hymenoptera: Vespoidea) of India, Zootaxa 4784 (1), pp. 1-87 : 55-56

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).