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Ropalidia ornaticeps

Description

245) Ropalidia ornaticeps (Cameron, 1900)

Icaria ornaticeps Cameron, 1900: 496. Type data: Female, OUM, BMNH. Type locality: Khasia Hills, Meghalaya, India.

Ropalidia flavopicta ornaticeps; van der Vecht, 1962: 49.

Ropalidia ornaticeps; Yoshikawa et al. 1969: 167.

Material examined. INDIA: Arunachal Pradesh: CAU Pasighat, 11.xi.2014, 1 ♀, Coll. Umesh. Assam: Nambor Forest, 27.ii.2015, 2 ♀, Coll. Ankita Gupta; Garampani, 1.iii.2015, 2 ♀, Coll. Naveenkumar. Mizoram: ICAR Kolasib, 16.iii.2016, 12 ♀, Coll. Sandesh & Umeshkumar; Champhai, 19.iii.2016, 1 ♀, Coll. Umeshkumar; Bairabi, 2 ♀, Coll. Umeshkumar; KVK Lengpui, 23.iii.2016, 5 ♀, Coll. Sandesh & Umeshkumar.

Distribution. India: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Sikkim, Tripura. Elsewhere: Bhutan; Cambodia; China; Laos; Malaysia; Myanmar; Thailand; Vietnam. (Jonathan et al. 2000a, Gusenleitner 2006, Nguyen et al. 2006a, Kojima et al. 2007, Gusenleitner 2011, Pham 2014, Tan et al. 2014a, Pham & Li 2015, Dorji et al. 2017a, Girish Kumar et al. 2017a, Girish Kumar & Sureshan 2019b).

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 57, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4784.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3862319

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