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Ropalidia brevita Das & Gupta 1989

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233) Ropalidia brevita Das & Gupta, 1989

Ropalidia (Antreneida) brevita Das and Gupta, 1989: 110, 121, 163. Type data: Holotype male, NZC. Type locality: Delhi, India.

Material examined. INDIA: Arunachal Pradesh: Pasighat, xi.2017, 1 ♀, Coll. Gandhi Gracy. Gujarat: AAU Anand, 27.xi.2015, 2 ♂, Coll. Sandesh & Umeshkumar; 10.xii.2018, 1 ♀ & 1 ♂, Coll. Ankita Gupta. Himachal Pradesh: IARI Katrain, 22.v.2016, 1 ♀, Coll. Sandesh Gawas; Palampur, 24.x.2017, 1 ♀ & 2 ♂, Coll. Ankita Gupta. Karnataka: Nandihills, 17.i.2006, 1 ♀, Coll. Naveenkumar; Sirsi, 20.vi.2016, 1 ♀, Coll. Ashwath; Dharwad, 30.xi.2005, 1 ♀, Coll. Shivaprakash; Hebbal Bengaluru, 29.xi.2010, 1 ♀, Coll. Umeshkumar; Shiva- moga, 4.viii.2018, 1 ♂, Coll. Ankita Gupta. Maharashtra: Bhimashankar Pune, 27.xi.2016,10 ♀ & 6 ♂, Coll. Sandesh Gawas; 22.ii.2017, 6 ♀, Coll. Sandesh Gawas. Odisha: OUAT Bhubaneshwar, 26.i.2017, 5 ♀ & 1 ♂, Coll. Sandesh Gawas; Puri, 30.i.2017, 1 ♀, Coll. Sandesh Gawas. Rajasthan: MPUAT Udaipur, 21.xi.2015, 4 ♀, Coll. Sandesh & Umeshkumar. Uttarakhand: Bhimtal, 12.xi.2016, 1 ♂, Coll. Ankita Gupta.

Distribution. India: Arunachal Pradesh (new record), Assam, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal. Elsewhere: Pakistan. (Jonathan et al. 1996, Gupta 1997, Jonathan et al. 2000b, Jonathan & Kundu 2003, Gusenleitner 2006, Kojima et al. 2007, Kundu et al. 2010, Girish Kumar & Sharma 2014a, 2014b& 2015, Girish Kumar et al. 2017 a, Rafi et al. 2017, Sheikh et al. 2017, Gawas et al. 2019, Girish Kumar et al. 2019b).

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

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