Scientific Name

Ropalidia cyathiformis (Fabricius, 1804)

Taxonomic Placement

Hymenoptera: Vespoidea: Vespidae: Polistinae: Ropalidiini: Ropalidia

Synonyms/Original combination

Eumenes cyathifornis Fabricius, 1804: 289.
Icaria ceylonica Cameron, 1898: 48.
Icaria cagayanensis Ashmead, 1905: 3.
Icaria bilineata Cameron, 1905: 72.
Ropalidia cyathiformis; van der Vecht, 1941: 104, 112,158.
Ropalidia rodialipa Lambert and Narendran, 2005a: 1922–23.
Ropalidia anupama Lambert and Narendran, 2005b: 270–273.

Brief diagnosis

Female: Ventral corner of pronotum gradually narrowed ventrally. Pretegular carina absent. Mesepisternum without scrobal sulcus. Mesepisternum with punctured posterodorsal area and unpunctured anteroventral area distinct. Forewing with 3 submarginal cells. Basal angle of second submarginal cell lager than 90°. Hindwing with jugal lobe. Propodeal orifice round. Propodeal valvula small hardly covering propodeal teeth. Metasoma basally petiolate. T1 short in lateral view. T2 vertically cut off posteriorly in lateral view. Colour: Body brownish red with yellow markings.

Images

Adult- dorsal view
Adult- lateral view
Adult- frontal view

Distribution

India: Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Gujarat (new record), Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan (new record), Uttarakhand, West Bengal.
Elsewhere: China; Indonesia; Malaysia; Myanmar; Nepal; Pakistan; Philippines; Sri Lanka; Thailand; Vietnam.

Distribution within India

References

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