Scientific Name

Parapolybia varia (Fabricius, 1787)

Taxonomic Placement

Hymenoptera: Vespoidea: Vespidae: Polistinae: Ropalidiini: Parapolybia

Synonyms/Original combination

Vespa varia Fabricius, 1787: 293.
Polistes varia; Fabricius, 1804: 279.
Polybia orientalis de Saussure, 1854: 208.
Polybia artifex Smith, 1861: 90.
Icaria quadrimaculata Cameron, 1900: 496.
Icaria carinata Cameron, 1900: 499.
Icaria wroughtoni Cameron, 1900: 500.
Icaria fuscipennis Cameron, 1900: 501.
Icaria cameroni Dalla Torre, 1904: 73.
Icaria Singapurensis Cameron, 1904: 120.
Icaria carinifera Schulz, 1906: 328.
Icaria annulipes Cameron, 1913: 115.
Stelopolybia disticha du Buysson, 1913: 298.

Brief diagnosis

Female: Eyes emarginate. Pronotum with pretegular carina. Mesepisternum with scrobal sulcus present.Fore wing folded longitudinally. Fore wing with first discal cell longer than subbasal cell. Hind wing with jugal lobe. Metasoma petiolate.

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Distribution

India: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Punjab, Sikkim, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal.
Elsewhere: Bhutan; China (including Hong Kong); Indonesia; Japan; Korea; Malaysia; Myanmar; Nepal; Philippines; Taiwan; Thailand; Vietnam.

Distribution within India

References

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