Ropalidia malaisei van der Vecht, 1962

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 : 18-19

Ropalidia malaisei van der Vecht, 1962 rec. n. Figure 1G

Ropalidia malaisei van der Vecht, 1962: 42, 65; Das and Gupta 1983: 427; 1989: 113, 151; Gusenleitner 1996: 16; Kojima 1996a: 325, 328, 340. Type locality: Myanmar.

Specimens examined.

MYANMAR: 4 ♂ (RMNH), N. East Burma: Sadon, 1200 m, 28. vi– 5.vii.1934, R. Malaise (paratypes of Ropalidia malaisei ). CHINA: 1 ♀ (NWUM), Longmen, Shangyong, Yunnan, 26.ix.2010, JL Tan; 20 ♀ (ZJUH, RMNH), Xishuangbanna Forestry Park, Yunan, 31.vii.2003 (no. 20045871, -74, -76, -77-82 (-79 in RMNH), -84-91, -93, -95), Q Jiang.

Remarks.

The yellow stripes of the mesoscutum are lacking in some individuals.

Distribution.

China (Yunnan), Myanmar. ( Kojima and Carpenter 1997 and updated to 2006).