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Ropalidia brevita Das & Gupta 1989

Description

Ropalidia brevita Das & Gupta, 1989

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Ropalidia brevita Das & Gupta, 1984: 416. Nomen nudum.

Ropalidia brevita Das & Gupta, 1989: 110 (key), 121, map 16, ♂, ♀ (in marginata -group of subgenus Anthreneida White), “ India: Dehli: University Ridge” (holotype ♂ Calcutta).

Material examined. Islamabad, 19.ix.12, 2♀, 3♂; Rawalpindi, 01.xii.12, 1♀, 16.ix.12, 9♀, 6♂; Murree, 14.vi.13, 1♀; Attock, 20.v.12, 3♀; Chakwal, 17.ix.12, 1♂, 2♀; Jhelum, 25.ix.12, 2♀.

Distribution. India (Das & Gupta 1989), Pakistan (Mahmood et al. 2012)

Comments. Specimens collected from Pakistan were compared with the published description of Ropalidia brevita Das & Gupta by Mahmood et al. (2012). This species is distinguished on the basis of the yellow stripe at the apex of the red clypeus.

Notes

Published as part of Siddiqui, Junaid Ali, Bodlah, Imran, Carpenter, James M., Naeem, Muhammad, Ahmad, Munir & Bodlah, Muhammad Adnan, 2015, Vespidae (Hymenoptera) of the Pothwar region of Punjab, Pakistan, pp. 501-524 in Zootaxa 3914 (5) on page 516, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3914.5.1, http://zenodo.org/record/241739

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References

  • Das, B. P. & Gupta, V. K. (1989) The social wasps of India and the adjacent countries. Oriental Insects Monograph, 11, 1 - 292.
  • Das, B. P. & Gupta, V. K. (1984 [" 1983 "]) A catalogue of the families Stenogastridae and Vespidae from the Indian subregion (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Oriental Insects, 17, 395 - 464. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1080 / 00305316.1983.10433698
  • Mahmood, K., Ullah, M., Aziz, A., Hasan, S. A. & Inayatullah, M. (2012) To the knowledge of Vespidae (Hymenoptera) of Pakistan. Zootaxa, 3318, 26 - 50.