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Ropalidia elegantula Richards 1978
Authors/Creators
- 1. Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79 th Street, New York, NY 10024, U. S. A.
- 2. Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, GPO Box 4646, Darwin, NT 0801, Australia. & Visiting Scientist, CSIRO Land and Water, Private Mail Bag 44, Winnellie, NT 0822, Australia. & University Fellow, Research Institute for Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, NT 0909, Australia. thynnini @ outlook. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4101 - 3823
Description
elegantula Richards
Ropalidia elegantula Richards, 1978: 53 (nest), 61, 64 (key), 70, Figs 16, 23, 37, female, male, nest (in subgenus Icariola) - “ Queensland Q3, Cape York Peninsula, Bamaga” (holotype female Canberra); also from seven other localities in Queensland. - Cardale, 1985: 214 (in subgenus Icariola; cat.). - Naumann, 1993, in Naumann et al.: 179 (distr.). - Kojima & Carpenter, 1997a: 20 (cat.). - Kojima, 1999b: 369, Figs 15–16 (Qld.); 1999c: 380 (key), 384 (distr.), Figs 14, 22–24, 26. - Saito & Kojima, 2005a: 180; Figs 1–6 (in stigma group; Qld.).
R. darwini; Kojima, 1999a: 65, Figs 151–153. Misidentification.
Distribution: NE coastal, N Gulf; Qld.
Notes
Published as part of Carpenter, James M. & Brown, Graham R., 2022, Catalogue of the Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), pp. 451-495 in Zootaxa 5214 (4) on page 461, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5214.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7397617
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Richards
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Family
- Vespidae
- Genus
- Ropalidia
- Species
- elegantula
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Ropalidia elegantula Richards, 1978 sec. Carpenter & Brown, 2022
References
- Richards, O. W. (1978) The Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Australian Journal of Zoology, Supplementary Series, 61, 1 - 132. https: // doi. org / 10.1071 / AJZS 061
- Cardale, J. C. (1985) Vespoidea and Sphecoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia, 2, 150 - 303.
- Naumann, I. D., Edwards, E. D., Weir, T. A. & Rentz, D. C. F. (1993) Insects of the Heathlands Area, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland. Cape York Peninsula Scientific Expedition Wet Season 1992 Report, 2, 173 - 203.
- Kojima, J. & Carpenter, J. M. (1997 a) Catalog of species in the polistine tribe Ropalidiini (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). American Museum Novitates, 3199, 1 - 96.
- Kojima, J. (1999 b) Taxonomic notes on Australian Ropalidia Guerin-Meneville, 1831 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Polistinae). Entomological Science, 2, 367 - 377.
- Saito, F. & Kojima, J. (2005 a) Taxonomy and biogeography of Australian species of the Ropalidia stigma group and R. variegata group (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Entomological Science, 8, 179 - 188. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1479 - 8298.2005.00111. x
- Kojima, J. (1999 a) Male genitalia and antennae in an Old World paper wasp genus Ropalidia Guerin-Meneville, 1831 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Polistinae). Natural History Bulletin of Ibaraki University, 3, 51 - 68.