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.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Das & Gupta
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Family
- Vespidae
- Genus
- Ropalidia
- Species
- brevita
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Ropalidia brevita Das, 1989 sec. Siddiqui, Bodlah, Carpenter, Naeem, Ahmad & Bodlah, 2015
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.