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Ropalidia fita Polasek 2025
Authors/Creators
- 1. Croatian Science Foundation, Zagreb, Croatia & University of Split, School of Medicine, Split, Croatia
Description
Ropalidia fita Polašek, 2025
Observations.
Mozambique • 3 ♀♀, nest; Muanza, Sofala; 19.01092°S, 34.67708°E; 1 Oct 2024; obs Ismenia Sitoe; (Sitoe 2024)
Zambia • 4 ♀♀, 2 nests; J. Lazy J. Sanctuary, Lusaka Central, Lusaka; 15.49645°S, 28.45342°E; 22 Nov 2020 and 31 Oct 2021; obs Nico Vromant; (Vromant 2020, 2021).
Nest.
This species builds elongated nests, with a 2 * n formula (Sitoe 2024). The cell wall is ferruginous, with lightly greenish horizontal streaks, and whitish cocoon caps with cell wall pulp on their surface (Vromant 2020).
Notes
Published as part of Polašek, Ozren, 2026, Description of the male of Ropalidia chromis Polašek, 2024 with further biological notes on the African species of the genus (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Polistinae), pp. 1-18 in African Invertebrates 67 (1) on pages 1-18, DOI: 10.3897/afrinvertebr.67.162082
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Event date
- 2020-11-22 , 2024-10-01
- Verbatim event date
- 2020-11-22/2021-10-31 , 2024-10-01
- Scientific name authorship
- Polasek
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Family
- Vespidae
- Genus
- Ropalidia
- Species
- fita
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Ropalidia fita Polasek, 2025 sec. Polašek, 2026
References
- Sitoe I (2024) Small Paper Wasps Genus Ropalidia. iNaturalist. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/246380689 [accessed 09 / 06 / 2025]
- Vromant N (2020) Small paper wasps genus Ropalidia. iNaturalist. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/66599042 [accessed 09 / 06 / 2025]
- Vromant N (2021) Small paper wasps genus Ropalidia. iNaturalist. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/99956905 [accessed 14 / 06 / 2025]