Scientific Name

Ropalidia fasciata (Fabricius, 1804)

Taxonomic Placement

Hymenoptera: Vespoidea: Vespidae: Polistinae: Ropalidiini: Ropalidia

Synonyms/Original combination

Eumenes fasciata Fabricius, 1804: 290.
Polistes bioculata Fabricius 1804: 278.
Icaria picta de Saussure, 1854: 238.
Icaria intermedia Cameron, 1905: 70.
Ropalidia fasciata; van der Vecht, 1959a [1958]: 245.

Brief diagnosis

Female: Ventral corner of pronotum gradually narrowed ventrally. Posterior margin of head in dorsal view broadly and shallowly emarginate medially. Pretegular carina absent. Mesepisternum without scrobal sulcus. Propodeal valvula large, circular covering most part of the propodeal teeth. Forewing with 3 submarginal cells. Basal angle of second submarginal cell lager than 90°. Hindwing with jugal lobe. Metasoma basally petiolate. T2 obliquely cutoff at posterior end, with tergum longer than sternum. Colour: Body brownish red with yellow markings.

Images

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

Distribution

India: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Delhi, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh.
Elsewhere: Bhutan; China (including Hong Kong); Japan; Indonesia; Laos; Malaysia; Myanmar; Nepal; Pakistan; Philippines; Sri Lanka; Taiwan; Thailand; Timor; Vietnam.

Distribution within India

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