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FIGURE 8. Ropalidia species, females. a–d. R in Revision of the mainland African species of the Old World social wasp genus Ropalidia Guérin-Méneville 1831 (Hymenoptera; Vespidae)

  • 1. Croatian Science Foundation, Zagreb, Croatia ozren.polasek@hrzz.hr; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5765-1862 & Croatian Centre for Global Health, University of Split School of Medicine, Split, Croatia
  • 2. Entomology Unit, Department of Zoology and Environmental Biology, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, 410001 Nigeria onah@unn.edu.ng; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2101-7894
  • 3. Department of Zoology, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria topekehinde@gmail.com; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2993-2373
  • 4. AllGenetics, La Coruna, Spain veronica@allgenetics.eu; https://orcid.org/0009-0008-6208-9908
  • 5. Research and Exhibitions Department, South African Museum, Iziko Museums of South Africa, PO Box 61, Cape Town, 8000, South Africa svannoort@iziko.org.za; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6930-9741 & Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Private Bag Rondebosch, 77016, South Africa
  • 6. Croatian Science Foundation, Zagreb, Croatia ozren.polasek@hrzz.hr; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5765-1862 & Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79 Street, New York, NY 10024, USA carpente@amnh.org; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6754-8028 *Corresponding author & Croatian Science Foundation, Zagreb, Croatia ozren.polasek@hrzz.hr; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5765-1862

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FIGURE 8. Ropalidia species, females. a–d. R. mosichi sp. nov., aa, bb. R. macloutsie sp. nov. a. head. b, aa. second metasomal segment. c. gena. d, bb. pronotum, oblique view.

Notes

Published as part of Polašek, Ozren, Onah, Ikechukwu, Kehinde, Tope, Rojo, Veronica, Noort, Simon Van & Carpenter, James M., 2025, Revision of the mainland African species of the Old World social wasp genus Ropalidia Guérin-Méneville 1831 (Hymenoptera; Vespidae), pp. 1-142 in Zootaxa 5626 (1) on page 14, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5626.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15325272

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