Published November 27, 2020 | Version v1

Ropalidia pilosa

  • 1. Natural History Laboratory, Faculty of Science, Ibaraki University, Mito, 310 - 8512, Japan.
  • 2. Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense, Research Center for Biology, Indonesian Institute of Sciences, Jl. Raya Jakarta-Bogor Km 46, Cibinong, Bogor, Indonesia. & hntawon @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 7985 - 2825
  • 3. Natural History Laboratory, Faculty of Science, Ibaraki University, Mito, 310 - 8512, Japan. & fuki. morooka. 3110 @ vc. ibaraki. ac. jp; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 4266 - 7981
  • 4. Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense, Research Center for Biology, Indonesian Institute of Sciences, Jl. Raya Jakarta-Bogor Km 46, Cibinong, Bogor, Indonesia. & ubaidillah 003 @ yahoo. com
  • 5. Natural History Laboratory, Faculty of Science, Ibaraki University, Mito, 310 - 8512, Japan. & junichi. kojima. nat 8 hist @ vc. ibaraki. ac. jp; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 8224 - 0715

Description

Ropalidia pilosa (Smith, 1858)

(Figs. 22, 29)

Icaria pilosa Smith, 1858b (1859): 22.

Specimens examined. Sulawesi I.: 1 ♂ (OUM), holotype of Icaria pilosa Smith, 1858; South East Sulawesi: 2 ♀, 1 ♂ (MZB), Watu Wila [ca. 03˚45’S 121˚41’E], alt. ca. 300 m, Sih Kahono [1 ♀, 1 ♂, 10.x.1989; 1 ♀, 20.x.1989]; North Kolaka: 2 ♀, 1 ♂(MZB), 03˚38’S 121˚04’E, Tinukari, Wawo [1 ♀, alt. ca. 186 m, 7.viii.2009, GY & Mirwan-to; 1 ♀, alt. ca. 195 m, 20.xii.2009; 1 ♂, alt. ca. 65 m, 23.xii.2009, HN et al.]; South Konawe: 1 ♂ (MZB), 04˚13’S 122˚44’E, alt. ca. 75 m, Sumbersari, Konawe, Kendari, 11.vii.2010, RU et al.; 1 ♀ (MZB), 03˚64’S 121˚09’E, alt. ca. 430 m, Tanjung Peropa, Sumbersari, Moramo, 4.xi.2010, RU et al.; 1 ♂ (IUNH), 04˚13’S 122˚44’E, alt. ca. 55 m, Sumbersari, Moramo, 22.viii.2014, FSM et al.; Kendari: 1 ♂ (IUNH), 04˚03’S 122˚33’E, alt. ca. 145 m, Nanga Nanga, Andonoahu, 24.viii.2014, FSM et al.; South Sulawesi: 1 ♀ (MZB), alt. ca. 250 m, Pattunuang, Maros [ca. 05˚03’S 119˚43’E], 19.v.2001, A.N. Woro & A. Fuji.

Remarks. This species is endemic to Sulawesi I. and is not so far recorded from northern parts of the island. The species might be closely allied to R. binghami distributed in Borneo I.

Distribution record: Sulawesi I. (van der Vecht, 1941; Kojima & van Achterberg, 1997a, b).

Notes

Published as part of Handru, Alan, Nugroho, Hari, Saito-Morooka, Fuki, Ubaidillah, Rosichon & Kojima, Jun-Ichi, 2020, Eusocial wasp fauna of Sulawesi Island, the central island of Wallacea (Hymenoptera: Vespidae; Polistinae, Vespinae), pp. 541-559 in Zootaxa 4885 (4) on pages 553-554, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4885.4.5, http://zenodo.org/record/4296946

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References

  • Vecht, J. van der (1941) The Indo-Australian species of the genus Ropalidia (= Icaria) (Hymenoptera, Vespidae) (first part). Treubia, 18, 103 - 190.
  • Kojima, J. & Achterberg, C. van (1997 a) List of the primary types of social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) deposited in the Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum, Leiden, and the Zoologisch Museum, Amsterdam. Zoologische Mededelingen Leiden, 71, 157 - 169.