Ropalidia fasciata (Fabricius, 1804)

Tan, Jiang-Li, Van Achterberg, Kees & Chen, Xue-Xin, 2014, Pictorial key to species of the genus Ropalidia Guerin-Meneville, 1831 (Hymenoptera, Vespidae) from China, with description of one new species, ZooKeys 391, pp. 1-35 : 16-17

Ropalidia fasciata (Fabricius, 1804) Figure 1D

Eumenes fasciata Fabricius, 1804: 290. Type locality: Java.

Polistes bioculata Fabricius, 1804: 278. Type locality: Nova Cambria.

Icaria picta de Saussure, 1854: 238. Type locality: India (Le Bengale).

Ropalidia fasciata ; van der Vecht 1959: 245.

Specimens examined.

1 ♂ (ZMUC), with three handwritten labels "Lectotype, J.v.d.Vecht, 1957", " Ropalidia fasciata (F.) ♂ = picta (Sauss.) det. v d Vecht, 1957", "E: fasciata, O. Java", and a red label: “Type”, ZMUC 00241458. CHINA: 2 ♀ (ZJUH), Songtao Reservoir, Hainan, 17.vii.2002, ZF Xu (no. 20029573-4); 2 ♂ + 7 ♀ (CATAS), Nada, Danzhou, Hainan, N 19°05'17", E109°34'50", 143 m; 1 ♀ (NWUM), Yaoqu, Mengla, Yunnan, 30.ix.2010, JL Tan; 1 ♂ (NWUM), Longmen, Shangyong, Yunnan, 27.ix.2010, JL Tan; 1 ♀ + 2 ♂ (ZJUH), Kaiyuan, Yunnan, v.1978, no. 780497, 780497, 780496, Y Huang; 1 ♀ (ZJUH), Kaiyuan, Yunnan,1984, no. 841202, YC Liao; 1 ♀ (ZJUH), Longchuan, Yunnan, 1981, no. 814945, SL Tao; 1 ♀ (ZJUH), Yunjiang, Yunnan, 4.iv.1981, no. 811491, JH He; 1 ♀ (RMNH), Canton (= Guangzhou); 1 ♀ (RMNH), Canton, 12.xi.1932; 2 ♀ (ZJUH), Fengkai, Guangdong, 16-18.v.1992, no. 921925, JH He; 1 ♀ (RMNH), Foochow (= Fuzhou), Kellogg; 2 ♂ (RMNH), Canton, 10.xi.1932, O Piel, no. 5.13.10.61, (with a handwritten label: " Ropalidia variegata , det. O Piel, 1935"); 4 ♀ (RMNH), N. Sanya, Gainan, Formosa, ii.1909, (labelled: Ropalidia picta Sauss., det. J v d Vecht '33); 8 ♀ (RMNH), Anping, Formosa, vii.1911, H Sauter (labelled: Icaria bioculata , det. Schulthess and Ropalidia picta (Sauss.), det. J v d Vecht, 1940); 2 ♀ (RMNH), Taihorin, Formosa, vii.1911, H Sauter, (labelled: Ropalidia variegata , det. Schulthess); 6 ♂ + 1 ♀ (RMNH), id., but 7.xii.1911; 4 ♂ (RMNH), id., but labelled " Ropalidia picta (Sauss.), det. J v d Vecht, 1940"; 1 ♂ (RMNH), Formosa, Taihorinsho, H Sauter; 1 ♂ (ZJUH), Longquan, Zhejiang, 20.vii.1965, no. 65053.6, JH He & DD Jin; 1 ♀, (ZJUH) Jingning, Zhejiang, vii.1994, no. 943782, SF Ye; 1 ♀ (ZJUH), Suichang, Zhejiang, 4. vii.1980, no. 833877; 1 ♀ (ZJUH), Mt. Jiulong, Suichang, Zhejiang, 18.vii.1994, no. 944048, JH He. MALAYSIA: 1 ♀ (RMNH), N. Borneo, Sabah, 6 km S of Nabawan, near old airstrip 116°.27'E, 5°.2'N, 400 m, 24.vi.1987, J Huisman.

Distribution.

China (Fujian, Guangdong, Hainan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Yunnan, Zhejiang); Bali; Bangka; Borneo; Flores; India; Java; Kariman Djava I.; Myanmar; Nepal; Nias; Malay Peninsula; Sumatra; Timor; Palawan; Ryukyu Islands; Philippines (Palawan); Sri Lanka; Thailand; Vietnam. ( Kojima and Carpenter 1997 and updated to 2006, Kojima et al. 2007, Barthélémy 2008).