Published December 31, 2020 | Version v1
Taxonomic treatment Open

Ropalidia stigma

Description

253) Ropalidia stigma (Smith, 1858)

Polybia stigma Smith, 1858: 114. Type data: Male, OUM. Type locality: Sarawak, Malaysia.

Parapolybia stigma; Schulthess, 1913a: 164.

Icaria stigma; du Buysson, 1913: 296.

Ropalidia artifex; Bequaert, 1918: 247.

Ropalidia stigma stigma; van der Vecht, 1941: 110, 126.

Ropalidia stigma rufa van der Vecht, 1941: 130.

Ropalidia stigma nigrolineata van der Vecht, 1962: 18.

Material examined. INDIA: Karnataka: Hangarki Dharwad, 1.xii.2005, 1 ♀, Coll. Somannavar. Maharshtra: Bhimashankar Pune, 27.xi.2016, 6 ♀, Coll. Sandesh Gawas; 22.ii.2017, 14 ♀, Coll. Sandesh Gawas.

Distribution. India: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Karnataka (new record), Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Odisha, Sikkim, Tripura, Uttarakhand, West Bengal. Elsewhere: Bhutan; China (including Hong Kong); Indonesia; Laos; Malaysia; Myanmar; Nepal; Philippines; Singapore; Sri Lanka; Thailand; Vietnam. (Yamane 1979, Jonathan et al. 1996, Jonathan et al. 2000a, Jonathan et al. 2000b, Jonathan & Kundu 2003, Gusenleitner 2006, Nguyen et al. 2006a, Kojima et al. 2007, Kundu et al. 2010, Gusenleitner 2011, Nugroho et al. 2012, Barthélémy et al. 2014, Tan et al. 2014a, Girish Kumar & Sharma 2015 b, Pham & Li 2015, Dorji et al. 2017a, Girish Kumar et al. 2017a, Gawas et al. 2019).

Notes

Published as part of Gawas, Sandesh M., Kumar, Girish, Pannure, Arati, Gupta, Ankita & Carpenter, James M., 2020, An annotated distributional checklist of Vespidae (Hymenoptera: Vespoidea) of India, pp. 1-87 in Zootaxa 4784 (1) on page 59, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4784.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3862319

Files

Files (2.0 kB)

Name Size Download all
md5:f605c17cda3899dbe2acaf623366f473
2.0 kB Download

System files (26.7 kB)

Name Size Download all
md5:27084b125185475f224b5923dfc5cae8
26.7 kB Download

Linked records

Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
OUM
Event date
2005-12-01 , 2016-11-27 , 2017-02-22
Family
Vespidae
Genus
Ropalidia
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hymenoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Smith
Species
stigma
Taxon rank
species
Verbatim event date
2005-12-01 , 2016-11-27 , 2017-02-22
Taxonomic concept label
Ropalidia stigma (Smith, 1858) sec. Gawas, Kumar, Pannure, Gupta & Carpenter, 2020

References

  • Smith, F. (1858) Catalogue of the Hymenopterous Insects collected at Sarawak, Borneo; Mount Ophir, Malacca; and at Singapore, by A. R. Wallace. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2, 42 - 130. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.1857. tb 01759. x
  • Schulthess, A. V. (1913 a) Parapolybia Saussure Vespidae sociales. Mitteilungen der Schweizrischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft, 12, 152 - 164.
  • Buysson, R. du (1913) Sur quelques Vespides (Hym.). Bulletin de la Societe entomologique de France, 1913, 296 - 299.
  • Bequaert, J. C. (1918) A revision of the Vespidae of the Belgian Congo based on the collection of the American Museum Congo Expedition, with a list of Ethiopian diploterous wasps. Bulletin of American Museum of Natural History, 39, 1 - 384.
  • van der Vecht, J. (1941) The Indo-Australian species of the genus Ropalidia (= Icaria) (Hym., Vespidae). Part-I. Treubia, 18, 103 - 190.
  • van der Vecht, J. (1962) The Indo-Australian species of the genus Ropalidia (Icaria) (Hymenoptera, Vespidae) (second part). Zoologische Verhandelingen, 57, 1 - 77.
  • Yamane, So. & Yamane, Sk. (1979) Polistine wasps from Nepal (Hymenoptera, Vespidae). Insecta matsumurana, New Series, 15, 1 - 37.
  • Jonathan, J. K., Roy, S. B. & Kundu, B. G. (1996) Insecta: Hymenoptera: Vespidae. Zoological Survey of India, State Fauna Series, Fauna of West Bengal, 3 (8), 149 - 184.
  • Jonathan, J. K., Roy, S. B. & Kundu, B. G. (2000 a) Insecta: Hymenoptera: Vespidae. Zoological Survey of India, State Fauna Series, Fauna of Meghalaya, 4 (7), 117 - 160.
  • Jonathan, J. K., Roy, S. B. & Kundu, B. G. (2000 b) Insecta: Hymenoptera: Vespidae. Zoological Survey of India, State Fauna Series, Fauna of Tripura, 3 (7), 377 - 390.
  • Jonathan, J. K. & Kundu, B. G. (2003) Insecta: Hymenoptera: Vespidae. Zoological Survey of India, State Fauna Series, Fauna of Sikkim, 9 (4), 369 - 392.
  • Gusenleitner, J. (2006) Uber Aufsammlungen von Faltenwespen in Indien (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Linzer Biologische Beitrage, 38 (1), 677 - 695.
  • Nguyen, L. T. P., Saito, F., Kojima, J. & Carpenter, J. M. (2006 a) Vespidae (Hymenoptera) of Vietnam 3. Synoptic key to Vietnamese species of the polistine genus Ropalidia, with notes on taxonomy and distribution. Entomological Science, 9 (1), 93 - 107. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1479 - 8298.2006.00157. x
  • Kojima, J. I., Lambert, K., Nguyen, L. T. P. & Saito, F. (2007) Taxonomic notes on the paper wasps of the genus Ropalidia in the Indian subcontinent (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Entomological science, 10 (4), 373 - 393. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1479 - 8298.2007.00237. x
  • Kundu, B. G., Girish Kumar, P., Kazmi, S. I. & Roychowdhury, S. (2010) Insecta: Hymenoptera: Aculeata (Vespidae and Apidae). Zoological Survey of India, State Fauna Series, Fauna of Uttarakhand, 18 (2), 725 - 748.
  • Gusenleitner, J. (2011) Eine Aufsammlung von Faltenwespen aus Laos im Biologiezentrum Linz (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Vespinae, Stenogastrinae, Polistinae, Eumeninae). Linzer Biologische Beitrage, 43 (2), 1351 - 1368.
  • Nugroho, H., Kojima, J. I. & Carpenter, J. M. (2012) Checklist of vespid species (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Vespidae) occurring in Indonesian archipelago. Treubia, 38, 71 - 186.
  • Barthelemy, C., Lee, J. X. & Kojima, J. (2014) Provisional Distributional Checklist of Hong Kong Social Wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Vespinae, Polistinae, Stenogastrinae). Hong Kong Entomological Bulletin, 6 (1), 3 - 14.
  • Tan, J. L., Achterberg, K. V. & Chen, X. X. (2014 a) Pictorial key to species of the genus Ropalidia Guerin-Meneville, 1831 (Hymenoptera, Vespidae) from China, with description of one new species. ZooKeys, 391, 1 - 35. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / zookeys. 391.6606
  • Girish Kumar, P. & Sharma, G. (2015 b) Taxonomic studies on Vespid Wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespoidea: Vespidae) of Chhattisgarh, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 7 (14), 8096 - 8127. https: // doi. org / 10.11609 / jott. 2426.7.14.8096 - 8127.
  • Choi, M. B. & Kwon, O. (2015) Occurrence of Hymenoptera (wasps and bees) and their foraging in the southwestern part of Jirisan National Park, South Korea. Journal of Ecology and Environment, 38 (3), 367 - 374. https: // doi. org / 10.5141 / ecoenv. 2015.038
  • Dorji, P., Klein, W. & Nidup, T. (2017 a) Taxonomic study of social vespid wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Vespinae & Polistinae) in Bhutan. Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics, 3 (2), 91 - 104.
  • Girish Kumar, P., Sureshan, P. M. & Manju, P. (2017 a) Additions to the knowledge on the paper wasp genus Ropalidia Guerin- Meneville (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Polistinae: Ropalidini) from India. In: Sinha, S. K. & Majumdar, S. (Eds.), Spare Nature. Damodar Group, Burdwan, pp. 6 - 17.
  • Gawas, S. M., Girish Kumar, P., Gupta, A. & Sureshan, P. M. (2019) Checklist of vespid wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) of Goa, India, with new records and a key to species. Zootaxa, 4585 (2), 269 - 294. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4585.2.3