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Parapolybia
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Genus Parapolybia de Saussure, 1854
Parapolybia de Saussure 1854: 207; von Schulthess 1913: 152; van der Vecht 1966: 5, 21; Gadagkar 1991: 149. Type species. Polybia indica de Saussure, 1854, by subsequent designation (Bingham 1897: 382).
Parapolybia is one of the four genera of the tribe Ropalidiini. It differs from other ropalidiine genera in the combination of the following characters: female and male antenna with respectively ten and 11 flagellomeres; pronotal carina incomplete, obliterated ventrally; pronotum with pretegular carina; mesepisternum with scrobal sulcus; T1 much longer than T2 width, posteriorly more or less distinctly swollen dorsally and laterally.
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Published as part of Saito-Morooka, Fuki, Nguyen, Lien T. P. & Kojima, Jun-Ichi, 2015, Review of the paper wasps of the Parapolybia indica species-group (Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Polistinae) in eastern parts of Asia, pp. 215-235 in Zootaxa 3947 (2) on page 216, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3947.2.5, http://zenodo.org/record/232726
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- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
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- Hymenoptera
- Family
- Vespidae
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- Parapolybia
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References
- Schulthess, A. von (1913) Parapolybia Saussure Vespidae sociales. Mitteilungen der Schweizrischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft, 12, 152 - 164. [plates. 11 and 11 a]
- Vecht, J. van der (1966) The east-asiatic and indo-australian species of Polybioide s Buysson and Parapolybia Saussure (Hym. Vespidae). Zoologische Verhandelingen, 82, 1 - 42. [plate. 3]
- Gadagkar, R. (1991) Belonogaster, Mischocyttarus, Parapolybia, and independent-founding Ropalidia. In: Ross, K. G. & Matthews, R. W. (Eds), The Social Biology of Wasps. Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London, pp. 149 - 187.
- Bingham, C. T. (1897) The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma, Hymenoptera. Vol. I. Wasps and Bees. Taylor and Francis, London, xxix + 579 pp. + plate. 4.